XPost: alt.usage.english
On 5/30/2024 3:27 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
HenHanna <[email protected]> wrote:
--------- ObPuzzle Is sesquippledan a made-up word?
Yes, made up by H.G. Wells in: The History of Mr Polly (1910)
as a deliberate mis-spelling of 'sesquipedalian'.
The correctly spelled word 'sesquipedalian' has a honerable ancestry,
from Latin 'sesquipedalis', going back to Horace.
What does it mean?
It means a word that is a foot and a half long,
Jan
Sesqui- the QUI part must have the sense of SELF
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Why did Wells put 2 O's in Verboojuice ?
prob. because it looks like Voodoo ...
i made up Spiquant --- it means.... when Spoken
produces a (linguistically) Piquant quality
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