Fight Despotism
linguistics
essential, quintessential
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.
forward, foreword
hendiadys
conscious, conscience
Today’s muddle consists of an adjective and a verb. Those parts of speech do different things; they are not interchangeable.
plumb, plum
As always, my explanations for Monday Muddle do not include every possible definition—only the ones that I frequently see being mixed up. Today’s post includes nothing about pipefitting.