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Feb 12, 2021
This week’s themeThere’s a word for it! This week’s words glossophobia agathokakological pensum perlage sialoquent 
Roy Hattersley, British MP, in the satirical puppet show Spitting Image
Photo: Spitting Image Wiki This week’s comments AWADmail 972 Next week’s theme To hyphenate or not to hyphenate? 
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with Anu Gargsialoquent
PRONUNCIATION:
(sy-AHL-uh-kwuhnt)
MEANING:
adjective: Spraying saliva when speaking.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek sialon (spit, saliva) + Latin loqui (to speak). Earliest
documented use: 1656.
USAGE:
“The powerful trio [CEOs of GM, Ford, and Chrysler] were greeted with
disdain and disbelief. Sialoquent congressmen vented their rage one
by one.” Levi Tillemann; The Great Race; Simon & Schuster; 2015. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to
do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to
me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent
and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the
express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of
caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice. -Charles Darwin,
naturalist and author (12 Feb 1809-1882) [Ichneumonidae: The family of
parasitic wasps that deposit eggs inside or on top of the larvae of other
insects. Once hatched, the ichneumonid larva slowly eats its host alive
from inside out.]
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