Come for the plural of "quid pro quo." Stay for the quotation about "quiddity" at the end — a word that comes from the same root. https://buff.ly/2POZxCt
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The fact that quae pro quibus "seems ridiculous, and hardly anyone would know what you mean" would, for some, be an argument in its favor.
The use of 'd for past tense rankles a bit, like using 's for a plural. One does have to allow "punk'd" and allusions thereto.
This reply is going in all directions, making it downright quaquaversal.
