I know it's been a while and I've missed you all! But somehow school begins and life begins ticking at lighting rate and it just becomes all crazy like and oh you know it's just blah! But I have managed to not forget about Wordy Wednesday this time.
And the word is....
Some of these words are really useless.
I mean, grammatology.
The word comes from the greek words, gramma meaning letter and ology meaning the science of.
There are no synonyms or antonyms of the word as far as I can tell.
My view of the antonym: the non scientific study of the not systems of drawing.
These words really aren't that wonderful at times.
As a part of the community service program we take part in, we visit a retirement and talk to the elders about anything. A wonderful man told us his many stories and told us of a particular word that instantaneously made me think of Wordy Wednesday.
Syzygy. The man told us the exact spelling, the game show he saw it on, in the age of 1952 or something and yet he has never forgotten the word. Asked him what it meant and he would tell you he had no idea! So, this is especially for him.
Syzygy:
Astronomy . an alignment of three celestial objects, as the sun, the earth, and either the moon or aplanet: Syzygy in the sun-earth-moon system occurs at the time of full moon and new moon.
2.
Classical Prosody . a group or combination of two feet, sometimes restricted to a combination of twofeet of different kinds.
3.
any two related things, either alike or opposite.
La Vie Vivante.
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