lettercol

English

Etymology

Clipping of letter column.

Noun

lettercol (plural lettercols)

(fandom slang) Section of a periodical in which readers' letters are published.
- 1958, Holland, Ralph Merridette, Ghu's Lexicon, page 3:
  LETTERCOL - A letter column. One of the favorite haunts of the actifans.
- 1971 November, Kaufman, Jerry, “The Flophouse?”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly‎, number 5, page 30:
  The lettercol is nearly incomprehensible, filled with references to some obscure in-group word, "prime".

References

“lettercol” in Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 110.

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