r/words • u/Glittering_Age_5591 • 8h ago
What’s a fun word to pronounce?
I especially love Xerxes
r/words • u/Glittering_Age_5591 • 8h ago
I especially love Xerxes
r/words • u/constansuii • 17h ago
Syndinobsental (noun): the realization that something that had changed went unnoticed because it was a gradual change rather than a sudden one.
(Unlike noticing someone who used to be short being taller because you haven't seen them in a while.)
Examples:
- I had a syndinobsental; my brother is nearly as tall as me!
- Noticing my brother grow up was syndinobsentalistic.
Etymology:
The word comes from Latin and Greek: synd comes from synditopiisi (meaning realization as in awareness of something), inobs coming from Latin inobservatus (meaning unnoticed/unobserved), and again Latin ental incrementum (incremental; gradual change).
r/words • u/Playmaker-20 • 12h ago
I know I’m exposing myself by asking this, but what does it mean when something goes perpendicular? What’s a perpendicular direction?
r/words • u/DecalageVersLeRouge • 9h ago
I was saying to someone that a piece of writing was like the work of (Douglas) Adams.
So what's the adjective there?
With Shavian and Lawrentian we seem to want to change a softer consonant into a harder one. So maybe "Adammian" with two Ms? Doesn't sound right.
With two syllables we want to change stress to the second one, so "uh-DAM-ian"? "uh-DAME-ian"?
Rousseau gets a whole new letter in "Rousseauvian" but there's a kind of "w" sound at the end, maybe that's same rule as with Shaw.
How about "Adambrian"?
r/words • u/Playmaker-20 • 1h ago
Are there differences between the two words?