Two middle aged men are playing Scrabble. One of them puts down the word “wont”. “That’s a contraction,” the other one says.
“It’s not won’t, it’s wont,” the first retorts, “which is a word.”
“Oh yeah? An English word?!” says the other.
“Yes, and English word,” says the perpetrator.
“Well I never heard of it,” the other says, “Why don’t you use it in a sentence.”
“Easter island had poured its collective genius into the construction and manufacture of hundreds of equally phenomenal bois parlants, or “talking boards,” as 19th century scholars were wont to call them.”