Sunday, August 19, 2018

You're Never Too Old To Learn...

Despite my having studied language and linguistics for decades, I'm always running across new words, or words that are new to me at least. A few recent examples:
  • "Jurist" as a synonym for "juror"
  • "falsity" as a synonym for "falsehood"
  • "Usurper" is a word often used on Game of Thrones. I recently heard a related word for first time, however, which is "usurpation." Both are nouns, but one is a person, and the other is the action that person does. (The usurper practices usurpation.)
  • The word "vog" as an actual word scientists use to describe volcanic smog

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