Word of the week: An evocative noun in reference to old-fashioned desk ink wells dipped into by quills or ink pens – an inkhornist is a pedant of words, while the phrase smelling of the inkhorn refers to be being excessively pedantic with language or grammar. But how does it shape up in song?
Read moreWord of the week: bahuvrihi
In linguistics, an evocative, descriptive compound word, from Sanscrit, often comprising an adjective then noun, or two nouns, in which the first part (A) describes the second (B), to create a word describing something else which has a “B that is A”
Read moreWord of the week: uglyography
Word of the week: It's an obscure, archaic 19th-century word with a definition almost as strangely obvious and clear as what it describes isn't – poor, illegible handwriting, and bad spelling and grammar
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