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Quodlibet
quod·li·bet \Quod"li*bet\ (kw[o^]d"l[i^]*b[e^]t), n. [L., what you please.] 1. A nice point; a subtilty; a debatable point.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Also quodlibertarian and quodlibetic - purely academic!
English Spelling? Does English really work this way?
* Pronounce "ghoti".
* Pronounce "Phtholognyrrh".
* Spell "coffee" completely wrong.
Go to the bottom of the page for
answers!
Grawlix, &$(#*&@!
A good use for some Dingbats! Grawlix was coined by Mort Walker. He also came up with words for various imaging elements in cartooning as presented in his book of 1980, The Lexicon of Comicana. Words like Plewds 'Flying sweat droplets that appear around a character's head when working hard or stressed.' or Agitrons 'Wiggly lines around an object that is shaking.' More at the Wikipedia link.
Nice to know there is a jargon for such stuff!
Answers:
- ghoti is pronounced: fish, 'gh' as in tough, 'o' as in women and
'ti' as in motion! Attributed to George
Bernard Shaw by some. Visit GHOTI for
a rant against this "joke" about english pronuciation.
- Phtholognyrrh pronounced: Turner, According to a Mr. Turner who
insisted on signing his name that way according to Robert M. Rennick in I
Didn't Catch Your Name, Verbatim® Vol. XXix, No2. Mr
Turner explains: " Look, the phth is like phthisic, which
is pronounced t; olo is like colonel, which is
pronounced ur; gn as in gnat is
pronounced n; and yrrh as in myrrh, is
pronounced er. So you have Turner. Nothing could be simpler." Reader's
Digest, Jan . 1941, p. 42
- coffee spelled completely incorrectly is kauphy! or kaughy!
A.Word.A.Day
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