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undyingking#10 in an occasional series -- your challenge is to use it at least once today.
Yes, after a break for Inspiration, MRIWFSORD is back, and more rhetorical than ever.
Literally, something like "cutting".
Means: inserting something into the middle of a word. Usually a compound word, although you can do it within an ordinary word too if you like, or even within a syllable.
Examples: things like abso-bloody-lutely, hi-diddly-ho, any old how. Note that whatsoever was originally a tmesis (and hyphenated accordingly) but has become accepted as a word in its own right.
OK, this one isn't very exciting, but tmesis is a good word, isn't it? (In Yorkshire of course it means something different, namely: what you set t'cats on.)
Yes, after a break for Inspiration, MRIWFSORD is back, and more rhetorical than ever.
Tmesis
Literally, something like "cutting".
Means: inserting something into the middle of a word. Usually a compound word, although you can do it within an ordinary word too if you like, or even within a syllable.
Examples: things like abso-bloody-lutely, hi-diddly-ho, any old how. Note that whatsoever was originally a tmesis (and hyphenated accordingly) but has become accepted as a word in its own right.
OK, this one isn't very exciting, but tmesis is a good word, isn't it? (In Yorkshire of course it means something different, namely: what you set t'cats on.)
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Date: 2006-01-25 10:34 am (UTC)quelle su-fucking-prise...
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Date: 2006-01-25 12:01 pm (UTC)