Pyromania, nymphomania, dipsomania Vergangensheitsbewaltigung (the burden of the past) anglophile, bibliophile. diarrhea, logorrhea—all of these are inclinations, with the exception of loose stools, generally something which is out of the control of the sufferer. The sympathetic fallacy occurs when nature mirrors the interior mind of a headless horseman. Onomatopoeia is a word that sounds similar to the thing described. Inspissation is an example of onomatopoeia. An emordnilap is the opposite of a palindrome like say nun, a word which can retain its meaning backwards and forwards. Prolepsis is anticipating the answer to a question which has yet to be asked. Zeugma or yoking is when one verb applies to multiple nouns. And then there are eggcorns, "for all intents and purposes" used wrongly in place of "for all intents and purposes"--"slips of the ear," named after "acorns" by the linguist Geoffrey Pullum in 2003.
read "Current Events" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star.
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