Bleshings

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From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959
The word "blesh" appears in Ted Sturgeon's Baby Is Three,[1] being a portmanteau word combining blend with mesh -- or bleshing them, if you prefer. It survives as a closing occasionally used in letters, probably by confusion with Blossings.

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  1. A novella first appearing in the October 1952 issue of Galaxy, it was later crafted into a full novel, More Than Human.

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