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Like most connections made this way, the intuition is right, but it didn't happen in English, it happened in Latin. Attention comes from the Latin attentio meaning 'attention' or 'mental heeding', while attend comes from ad meaning 'to' and tendo meaning 'stretch'. (Essentially 'stretching' ones mind to something). attentio, of course, came from ad and tendo, while at came from ad and tension comes from tendo. So your interpretation's spot-on, it just pre-dates English.

It's an old usage and at one point was considered correct. It appears a few times in Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur iirc

Edit: it does appear to be defined online

There's iconophile - A person who loves icons, illustrations, pictures.. Not sure if there is a word specifically for logos, though.

Oh and it's not logopedia - that's the science and study of speech defects and impediments.

American English; 2000-2008

British English; 2000-2008

If someone is being/sounding pretentious and happens to be using that word, then I can see your dislike for it (by association). Don't hate the word, though, it's a word. That's like hating screwdrivers because everyone in your neighborhood is moron and uses them as chisels and pry-bars and they do that job poorly.

Also, what do you mean "appears to fit more into their written word pattern"? Are you really saying someone should change the way they write/speak because it suits you better?

Referencing back to my earlier comment, if it's not affecting comprehension then what is the big deal?

If someone calls an eggplant an aubergine, do you hate them?

I found a use from 1944.

No, totally different words. Putrid comes from the Latin putridus while putid comes from putidus. Similar etymologies, but separate words with subtly different connotations.

This word has an interesting etymology, if anyone is interested. It's come to be associated with masturbation, although the biblical origin is much stranger.

No actually!

Gnaw is Germanic and "probably imitative of gnawing." Gnash has the same story.

Etymology:

> from Gk. battologia "a speaking stammeringly," from battos "stammerer," of imitative origin, + -logia (see -logy).

Trife? That ain't a word is it?^* Did you perhaps mean <em>trite</em>?

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^* Urban dictionary begs to differ. TIL.

My go-to example for this comes from Henry Thoreau's <em>Walden</em> in his chapter about growing beans:

> Not that I wanted beans to eat, for I am by nature a Pythagorean, so far as beans are concerned, whether they mean porridge or voting, and exchanged them for rice; but, perchance, as some must work in fields if only for the sake of tropes and expression, to serve a parable-maker one day. It was on the whole a rare amusement, which, continued too long, might have become a dissipation. Though I gave them no manure, and did not hoe them all once, I hoed them unusually well as far as I went, and was paid for it in the end, "there being in truth," as Evelyn says, "no compost or laetation whatsoever comparable to this continual motion, repastination, and turning of the mould with the spade." "The earth," he adds elsewhere, "especially if fresh, has a certain magnetism in it, by which it attracts the salt, power, or virtue (call it either) which gives it life, and is the logic of all the labor and stir we keep about it, to sustain us; all dungings and other sordid temperings being but the vicars succedaneous to this improvement." Moreover, this being one of those "worn-out and exhausted lay fields which enjoy their sabbath," had perchance, as Sir Kenelm Digby thinks likely, attracted "vital spirits" from the air. I harvested twelve bushels of beans.

It's been a while, but if memory serves, A Confederacy of Dunces would fit the bill, too.

i forgot to mention, a lot of the words came from James Ellory's LA Quartet (1 and 2), and his Underworld USA Trilogy.

The other chunk came from an Android app called Orphic, which has a bunch of esoteric words; me perusing Dictionary.com for words, and favorite'ing them; and a hilariously-over-the-top Audiobook called WORDSMART: GENIUS EDITION, which geniuosly doesn't include the PDF, so someone in the Amazon comments ended up transcribing and putting up: https://pastebin.com/iCw9P5ix

This is called "selfing". I thought this was from https://www.amazon.com/Fuck-YES-Guide-Acceptance-Everything-ebook/dp/B005CXQ0YU, but I'm not sure. I might have read another book around the same time that had this concept in it.

Makes total sense

Onomatopoeia: The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle)

When I was first introduced to this word, the only thing I could think of was the phrase &quot;chewing the fat&quot; (or phat?).

They're almost certainly not related, but it amused me.

I feel your pain. When I was a QA manager I found the need to find a word that captured the annoyance factor I felt, and exigent and clamant were subtly off.

Interestingly, viceroy can serve as a gender-neutral term.

Also, it is shown in your source, but I think it's an interesting note that:

> Vicereine is more commonly used to indicate a viceroy's wife.

Another source

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tergiversation

Definition of tergiversation

1:  evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut statement :  equivocation

2:  desertion of a cause, position, party, or faith

Side-note: The Wikipedia article linked to above addresses its philosophic connotation; for a bit more clarity on its alternative/ordinary use(s), as well as some examples, I'd recommend OxfordDictionaries.com's entry, otherwise, here's a link to the Dictionary.com entry for reference as well.

Sorry, never heard of it!

I found bissextile while looking up the etymology for sex. (It is related to 'section', as in a section of the population.)

Is it a noun you're looking for? A patter seems to fit the bill here.

It's a term for a fluid, smooth, polished pitch or speech to convince someone or sell something. It normally has a positive connotation with someone's skill as an orator or salesman, although often a negative one with their motivations. Part of the quality of a patter comes from sounding very extemporaneous despite being a rehearsed and practiced part of the profession of the deliverer.

A deft patter is almost a humming melodic stream of words, where the delivery and tempo is almost as compelling as their content. Think of the stereotypical man peddling his wares in a bazzar, cast out nets of "come see! come buy!" and immediately launching into a litany of promise and praise for his goods the second he notices he's caught someone's attention.

The canonical example of a patter, in my mind, is the Auctioneer in the blind auction from the english-language opera the Rake's Progress. His plodding, floral, almost meaningless prose, slowly builds in intensity into short, staccato exclamations as he hypes the audience and plies their bets with grandiose promises of something nobody, not even himself, knows what it is.

That's a good one! I was trying to think of some other examples but only came up with satiable. Not sure if there's a name for it. Maybe one for /r/whatstheword or if not, /r/neology.

Edit: some more good examples in this quora thread.

How about sectarian/sectarianism? Though mainly used here in Scotland in reference to religious leanings I've often heard it in politics as well.

The greek prefix Apo- is interesting, here's a little more detail for the interested:

a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek, where it was joined to verbs, deverbal forms, and other parts of speech. Among its functions in Greek, apo-, has the spatial sense “away, off, apart” ( apogee; apocope; apostasy; apostrophe); it occurs with deverbals that denote a response or defense ( apodosis; apology) and is found on verbs having perfective force relative to a corresponding simple verb ( apoplexy; aposiopesis). In modern scientific coinages in English and other languages, apo-, marks things that are detached, separate, or derivative ( apocarpous; apoenzyme).

Source: The Dictionary.com

It's not a perfect world

I prefer using Mind Harbor app. It gives you 5 new words daily, from different sources. You can learn and share new words daily. It helped me to improve my vocabulary.

Along with new words, this app features new article, photo, riddle, facts, and much more things every day. Reading through this content helps improving your knowledge as well as reading skills.

Only constraint is that they only have android application.

Here is link to the app - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appWorldIndia.onThisDayApp

My girlfriend bought me, a number of years ago now, Reading the OED by Ammon Shea. Here's a link. I enjoyed it quite a bit, although keep in mind it is a non-fiction book so there might be a taste difference there.

Listening to Being Nixon: A Man Divided and his Checker's Speech was described as being mawkish.

I found it in a book that I highly recommend if you like... weird words

https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Wonderful-Words-Erin-McKean/dp/0195159055/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484108983&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=weird+and+wonderful+words

Someone gave me this book, I haven't had I chance to go through it any more than a brief skimming but it's cheap and probably has a few good ones In it.

http://www.amazon.com/2000-Most-Challenging-Obscure-Words/dp/0883658488

Ran into it while reading A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life

>Five or six hundred years ago, places like Gresham Street in the City, Clerkenwell Green and Drury Lane used to be known as 'cat streets' and were overrun with them. These strays are the flotsam and jetsam of the city, running around fighting for survival on a daily basis.

Excellent book btw, do get one and check out these uplifting videos on youtube too.

I used that word (well almost) in my 2nd ever reddit post in /r/fifthworldproblems . Back then entries with obscure words were all the craze.

I leaned very heavily on my copy of Dictionary of Uncommon Words by L.Urdang for that one!