Daily each one oy us should teach others a new word
By akotawala
@akotawala (134)
India
March 17, 2007 5:41am CST
What do you all thing about this. Here i start with my word......
::Cacoepy::
means- Incorrect Prnunciation
usage- Occasionally, we need words we have long since abandoned or that we have abandoned us. We may be facing a period in or history now when we need to retrieve "cacoepy" from our lexical attic. "Cacoepy" in not to be confused with cacology "bad choice of words". The antonym of "cacoepy" is orthoepy "the correct pronunciation of words". "Cacoepistic" is the adjective form of this word and a person who often mispronounces words is a "cacoepist".
Etymoloey- the first part of this word comes from the Greek kakos "bad". The PIE root is kakka- "to defecate". Words like "poppycock" and "cacophony" have their origins in the same root. The second half, -epy, is from Greek: epos "song, word". Its PIE root is wekw-, which also turns up in "vocal", "vocie", "invoke", and "vote".
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