forget tmesis

Jean-Joseph Cote jjcote at juno.com
Mon Dec 2 23:58:27 EST 2002


Well, as I suspected, tmesis was already known (I expected that Elliott
would know it, but Pierre and Joe are the ones who spoke up).  It refers
to splitting a compound word in half and jamming other words in between. 
The dictionary mentions "where I go ever", although a more familiar
colloquialism may be "abso-..." ... never mind...

Okay, next we'll try:

POGONIP

(This one may have even been shot down once before, I don't remember.)

Jean-Joseph




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