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Nearly Sane

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New favourite word
« on: October 16, 2015, 06:08:13 PM »


I was posting a link to mondegreens which is a much loved word and discovered this one

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumpsimus

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Re: New favourite word
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2015, 10:10:31 AM »
I learned the word 'pagination' recently, and I really like it
A lot of people don't believe that the loch ness monster exists. Now, I don't know anything about zooology, biology, geology, herpetology, evolutionary theory, evolutionary biology, marine biology, cryptozoology, palaeontology or archaeology... but I think... what if a dinosaur got into the lake?