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Day: December 7, 2004

Epenthe-oh-sis

Epenthe-oh-sis

I haven’t even tried to get back in the word game I’ve been playing. The thought of writing an entire post with only five-syllable words makes me shudder. But the Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day made me think: if everyone just pronounces whatever words I use in the way that Bush pronounces words, we’ll be okay. In other words, I could have used the word “nuclear” in my three-syllable post. Hm. That means I can totally use epenthesis in the…

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