Showing posts with label 3:XLVIII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3:XLVIII. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Bdelygmia

Meaning: a rhetorical term for a litany of abuse, invective, execration, imprecation.

Usefulness: 1 (Once you learn the B is silent, it becomes much easier to say. This word will be come in handy if you're ever so foolish as to express opinions on things on the internet.)

Logofascination: 1 (From the Greek for 'cutting' or 'filth, nastiness', according to a rather useful about.com article on the subject. Google Translate tells me that abomination or abhorrence is the translation for the modern Greek equivalent.  I have not yet found any related terms, and the word itself is not in the OED. We have several options for Latin equivalents, but the Greek doesn't seem to have parented any English descendants.)

Monday, November 26, 2012

Collugency

Meaning: mutual sorrow, shared mourning. 

Usefulness: 1 (Can be used seriously: "the nation's collugency at this sad time..." or not: "The outer suburbs of Melbourne were cast into collugency at Collingwood's elimination from the finals.")

Logofascination: 1 (I am reasonably sure that Sir Thomas invented this one, albeit by Anglicising the Latin collugere.)