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Words Worth: SMONDAY

Jeff

Neologism – A relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully accepted into mainstream language. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism


Smonday: The moment when Sunday stops feeling like Sunday and the anxiety of Monday kicks in.

“Smonday: The moment when Sunday stops feeling like Sunday
and the anxiety of Monday kicks in.”

 
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Humor – Waiting for a Return Text

Jeff

 

Contemporary Words

Textpectation

 

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Words Worth: What-ology?

Jeff

Most JBRish readers probably know that the suffix “ology” denotes the study of something. Well, here is a challenge…if you accept it.

BuzzFeed has an “Ology” quiz. They will present you with thirteen words ending in “ology” and you need to guess the correct area of study. I anticipated doing pretty well, but I missed three of them. I guess I have more studying to do. Is there an ology, ology?

For example, here is one of the items I did not answer correctly:

 

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WHICH OLOGY IS THE STUDY OF HORSES?

A – Hippology
B – Hoppology

Now don’t go looking this up IF you want to accept the challenge. If you think you are an “ology” expert, you can test your knowledge here:

Do You Know What All These “-Ology” Words Actually Mean?

 
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