lettercol

English

Etymology

Clipping of letter column.

Noun

lettercol (plural lettercols)

1. (fandom slang) Section of a periodical in which readers' letters are published.
   • 1958, Ralph Merridette Holland, Ghu's Lexicon, page 3:

     LETTERCOL - A letter column. One of the favorite haunts of the actifans.

   • 1971 November, Jerry Kaufman, “The Flophouse?”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly‎^[1], number 5, page 30:

     The lettercol is nearly incomprehensible, filled with references to some obscure in-group word, "prime".

References

• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “lettercol”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 110.

Anagrams

• Cotterell