Words that don’t exist, but should: acute: running northeast to southwest, or from top-right to bottom-left. “Lines with positive slope run acute.” See also grave. disempossible: make impossible. See also empossible. derd: a socially adept and attractive person who is chronically disorganized or incapable of scientific reasoning or rational discussion. (The definition, though not the word, is suggested in Mathematics Magazine, April 2000, p. 163.) empossible: make possible. Unfortunately, the pronunciation of this word is close to impossible. grave (pronounced GRA-veh) running northwest to southeast, or from top-left to bottom-right. “Customarily, the stripes on a man’s necktie are grave.” See also acute. grygry: a despicably irresponsible act, as: the wanton and deliberate promulgation of a word-puzzle that has no solution leftside-right: reversed as a mirror-image manier: a larger number of discrete objects; antonym of fewer. “You need manier strawberries if you want to make more jam.” uniquefy: make unique, by deleting duplications. “Uniquefy the names in this database.” The future of English personal pronouns: I have seen the future. “He” and “she,” the last vestiges of grammatical gender left over from our Germanic heritage, will become archaisms, like “thou.” The following will prevail, for better or otherwise: |
