Here at turtleneck.net, the editors believe in a variant definition
for the word "essay". In grade school and at University, many times
we are led to think of the essay as some painful undertaking designed
to prove our ability to parrot lectures back at the instructor.
We would like to return to an older, more elegant sense of the word:
es-say ('e-"sA), n. [Middle English, from Middle French essai, ultimately from Late Latin exagium act of weighing, from ex- + agere to drive]
2a: effort, attempt; especially : an initial tentative effort
b: the result or product of an attempt
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