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Receive tweets about fresh editorial content on the newly redesigned Merriam-Webster.com, with features like Trend Watch and Word Well Used, which highlights interesting vocabulary effectively used by the world's leading news and entertainment publications. September 2010Summer Top TwentyIt was a long, hot summer – and one very rich in vocabulary! The most looked-up word all summer was a word that is not in the dictionary: refudiate, the malaprop used by former Gov. Sarah Palin on television and Twitter. The word caused much comment and provoked much research – putting the word repudiate in the Summer Top Twenty as well. Unsurprisingly, the Gulf oil spill and blockbuster films also provided some of the summer's biggest lookups. Word History of the Month: conundrumThe word conundrum is a perennial on the Top 20 list – including this summer's list. Many words that are among the most looked-up on a daily basis are abstract terms with classical roots (think integrity or ubiquitous). Conundrum would seem to fit right in with them. But does it? Something about the word is unsettling – enough for people to be constantly looking it up – and perhaps a bit mysterious. hypothesis fallacy argument from analogy fallacy fallacy of undisturbed middle term mathmatical fallacy cartoon two forms of formal fallacy the planning fallacy walmart low price fallacy examples of naturalistic fallacy fallacy princess diana death anthropomorphic fallacy rhetorical fallacy fallacy stated by senator clinton texas sharshooter fallacy ad hominem fallacy what is a straw man fallacy the red herring fallacy fallacy of polling fallacy of homework logical fallacy card stacking logical fallacy advertisements advertisement fallacies circular reasoning fallacy a fallacy from a newspaper editorial global warming fallacy fallacy quotes newspaper fallacy articles concepts of fallacy begging the question fallacy ad hoc fallacy mayfly fallacy planning fallacy common fallacy definitions the mirror-image fallacy understanding the kgb advertisement fallacy in 2008 example of a non sequitor fallacy inconvenient truth fallacy fallacy of appeal to advantage the breda fallacy fallacy detective Notable and Quotable: D.H. Lawrenceovercoming planning fallacy cultural attribution fallacy a fallacy from a opinion magazine personal validation fallacy skakespear pathetic fallacy define fallacy open immigration fallacy argumentative essay fallacy ignorance fallacy fallacy in ads drink heavily fallacy fallacy in advertisement example of fallacy in the news post hoc propter hoc fallacy slanting fallacy examples fallacy of tradition to appeal fallacy terms inductive fallacy pathetic fallacy definition false cause fallacy special education inclusion fallacy the average man fallacy gamblers fallacy fallacy of diversion fallacy begging the question fallacy of the suppressed correlative logical fallacy begging the question define the fallacy oversimplification non sequitur fallacy example of deductive fallacy fallacy arguments are discounted merely fallacy effective schools fallacy satanism false fallacy false fallacy dillema love is a fallacy plot what is the fallacy of approval composition fallacy D.H. Lawrence was born September 11, 1885. Long troubled by ill health, the poet, critic, and novelist (Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Sons and Lovers) died at 44. Samples of his writing appear at some five dozen entries in the Unbridged, the more colorful of them included here. (When was the last time you encountered "everywhere" used as a noun?).hypostatization fallacy pathetic fallacy example dicto simpliciter fallacy misrepresentation of references fallacy fallacy list 12 angry men fallacy of reason fallacy and roe v wade the fat fallacy what is a fallacy macbeth pathetic fallacy red herring fallacy examples what is a wishful thinking fallacy love is a fallacy by shulman fallacy of imitative form appeal to pity fallacy in advertisement correlation fallacy straw man fallacy diabetic diet fallacy mid life crisis fact or fallacy fallacy tes tuniversity of phoinx post hoc fallacy person who fallacy fallacy of market value scare tactics fallacy fallacy suppressed evidence example fallacy articles fallacy of equivocation fallacy on false dilimma sample articles fallacy of evidence logic term fallacy plain folks fallacy hypnogogic fallacy mathematical fallacy cartoon fallacy practice group think fallacy fallacy definition what does fallacy mean results of red herring fallacy Interested in seeing all the examples of a particular writer? Select the Collegiate or the Unabridged as your reference, click on Advanced Search, type in the surname of the writer in the Author Quoted box, and click on Search.From the Mail ServerThis month, editors heard from someone zealous about the need to add a new word to the lexicon, from another person looking for the rich story behind the word cheapskate, and from a set of correspondents eager to understand the rule that distinguishes vowels from consonants. Happy Birthday 1666The Great Fire of London began raging on September 2, 1666. By the time the fire ended three days later, St. Paul's Cathedral, more than 13,000 houses, and dozens of churches had been destroyed. A new London (with less wood) arose from the ashes. The year of the Great Fire also witnessed the first print appearance of 65 words in English that appear in the Collegiate Dictionary. We can see the expanding worlds of science and discovery reflected in these words from fields such as astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. Interested in seeing all 65 words that first appeared in print in 1666? Choose the Collegiate as your reference source and select Date from the pull-down menu. Type in the date and click on Search. Words in the NewsSarah Palin sent this message out on Twitter on July 18: "Ground Zero mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate." This sent refudiate to the top of the Top Twenty for the summer. Why the buzz? For starters, refudiate is not (yet) in the dictionary. Then there was the controversy over subsequent tweets from Gov. Palin, first changing refudiate to repudiate, and then defending her coinage, invoking Shakespeare: "English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!" Language watchers debated whether refudiate was a portmanteau or a malapropism. The blend is easy to figure out (refute or refuse + repudiate). But what's the story on malapropism? fallacy advertisements examples affective fallacy ad populum fallacy equivocation fallacy perfectionist fallacy loaded question fallacy pathetic fallacy mangosteen fallacy distinguishing facts from opinion fallacy minor point fallacy example fallacy files informal fallacy scarecrow fallacy dualistic fallacy in criminology fallacy post hoc sven faret logical fallacy bandwagon fallacy appeal to authority fallacy love is a fallacy notes gold standard fallacy gambler fallacy loaded words fallacy examples part 2 feat fallacy fallacy checker types of formal fallacy fallacy on average man burden of proof logical fallacy example fallacy example appeal to ignorance fallacy fallacy of converse accident fallacy circular reasoning authorial fallacy anachronistic fallacy examples fallacy examples of fallacy of amphiboly breda fallacy fallacy word twisting appeal to novelty fallacy Just Foolin' AroundChristopher Nolan's hit movie Inception propelled the word inception to #2 on the Summer Top Twenty. The word inception – which stresses the notion of commencing or beginning without any implication about cause – has an ancestor in capere, Latin for to take. Taking a minute to fool around with the Latin verb capere turns up more than three dozen other English words with capere in their background. Language LinksInterest in refudiate reminds us of the eggcorn. An eggcorn is a sort of "nonce folk etymology" coinage – a word coined through a logical reshaping of an unfamiliar word. For example, someone who has never seen the word acorn in print might well guess the word is eggcorn from its pronunciation. Eggcorns, unlike malapropisms, make sense. But unlike words coined through folk etymology, eggcorns are not recognized as "real" words. (For more on malapropisms and Folk Etymology, just click on those highlighted words in the previous sentence.) For a list of common eggcorns, check out the Eggcorn Database. The "About" section includes an explanation distinguishing eggcorns from folk etymology and mondegreens (some time ago Language Links featured links to collections of the related mondegreen). Back to Top |
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