Can't remember, Catty but if you're after another useless word, try this one:
(And I bet even Dub doesn't know this one, unless, of course, he subscribes to the same zine I do! lol)
boustrophedon
PRONUNCIATION:
(boo-struh-FEED-n, -FEE-don)
MEANING:
noun: A method of writing in which lines are written alternately in opposite direction, from left to right, and right to left.
ETYMOLOGY:
From boustrophedon, literally ox-turning, referring to the movement of an ox while plowing a field, from bous (ox) and strophe (turning). It's the same strophe that shows up in catastrophe (literally, an overturning) and apostrophe (literally, turning away, referring to the omission of a letter).
NOTES:
In such writing, each letter on the alternate lines was written as in a mirror image or rotated 180 degrees. We still do many things boustrophedonically, such as mowing the lawn, vacuuming the floor, etc. In many computer printers, such as dot-matrix and inkjet, the print head usually moves in the boustrophedon mode (though thankfully doesn't print letters mirrored or rotated).
USAGE:
"Tell me, am I wrong to mock vertigo from summit to abyss, to reveal the world as I see it? To scribe my destiny boustrophedon, from left to right then right to left."
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