Category: Wednesday Word
morphology
linguistics
portmanteau
hendiatris
If you search for ‘hendiatris’ on the Internet, you will find it easily, but if you search for it in a traditional dictionary, you probably won’t. It is possible that ‘hendiatris’ is a sort of back-formation from ‘hendiadys’, though it substitutes an affix rather than deleting one.
hendiadys
eponym
palindrome
Since I mentioned palindromes in my post last week, I thought they should be the subject of my post this week. Share your favourites in the comments.
levidrome
After you have watched the explanation of levidrome in the video, add your favourite levidrome in the comments. And please share!
antecedent
Antecedents should be clearly understood by the use of the pronoun. Otherwise your communication will be ineffective—or funny.