Ivan's weblog

2004-12-8

Stop the presses: it may not be Winter already!

Filed under: — ivan @ 1:13 pm

Today it feels like Spring: now we are at 15 °C. Welcome to New England! As they say, “if you don’t like the weather, just wait five minutes and it will change".

George W. Bush suffers from “epenthesis”

Filed under: — ivan @ 1:06 pm

Who would have thought that saying nucular (or nukular) had a technical name?

From Merriam-Webster’s word of the day:

epenthesis ih-PEN-thuh-siss noun
: the insertion or development of a sound or letter in the body of a word

[…]If you say “athlete” as “ath-a-lete,” you’ve committed
epenthesis.[…]

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