WORDS FOR TODAY

Barack Obama \ba-rack\o-ba-ma\, noun

Meaning: the president, a leader, great power & focus for the people with an unwillingness to quit.

Origin : Barack is an African term meaning blessed also a form of the Hebrew name Baruch. Obama is a name from the Luo ethnic group of southern Kenya.

cacology \ ka-KOL-uh-jee \ , noun;

1.Defectively produced speech; socially unacceptable diction.


Quotes:
As to prose, I don't know Addison's from Johnson's; but I will try to mend my cacology.

(- Lord Byron, The Works and Letters of Lord Byron)

Such cacology drives some people to distraction.
(-- Linton Weeks, "R Grammar Gaffes Ruining the Language? Maybe Not", NPR)

Origin:Cacology comes from the root caco- meaning "bad." This prefix occurs in loanwords from Greek. Similarly the suffix -logy is a combining form used in the names of sciences and bodies of knowledge.
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