Thursday 31 March 7-by-many FUSTIAN‽ puzzle

[Alan W]

Antifa is sometimes written with an initial capital letter, but often not. A very recent example, from a Washington Post article dated 13 June, about Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace:

A month after her 2020 victory, someone keyed her car, she says, and in another incident, someone spray-painted “F--- You Nancy” and the antifa symbol, among other things, outside her house.

(From other news articles it seems the symbol painted outside her house was the letter A in a circle - actually an anarchist symbol - accompanied by the slogan "All politicians are bastards".)

Merriam-Webster lists antifa in the all lower case form with the note "or less commonly Antifa". Wiktionary lists both variants.

I'll add antifa as a rare word.

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Thanks, Alan...

[Alan W]

Insinuant: I take it this was an April Fools prank on your part, RTT?

It is in a few dictionaries, but it's definitely obsolete, and even in its heyday must have been quite rare, since I was unable to find a single example of its use in anything that anyone today is likely to have read. I decline this suggestion.

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Prank  Moi 

I know not what you speak of... 

[Alan W]

Funis is in a few dictionaries. Funisitis only in Wiktionary that I could see.

The words are used very occasionally in medical publications. A 2016 citation in the OED: "They should check in order to detect a few emergency situations, such as funis coiled around the neck." And from a 2020 article in Pediatrics: "Funisitis is inflammation involving the umbilical cord usually from the fetal vessels."

OED says the plural of funis is funes.

I'll add funis, funes and funitis as rare words.

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Thanks Alan...  (Extra thanks for funes, of course...)