Because I learned it here (hat tip to @MySideIsHumanity), I'mma share it with all of you because a) it's a fun rhetorical device and b) what is social media for, if not delicious infodumping? #WordsWordsWords #Vocabulary

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis

In honor of International Cat Day (est. 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare):

CLIMB-TACK is a dialect word for "a cat that is overfond of investigating the contents of the larder-shelves" (English Dialect Dictionary, Vol. I. 1898).

[Paul Anthony Jones, The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities, University of Chicago Press, 2017]

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I just learned the Greek word "thumos" the other day. Meaning spiritedness or desiring recognition. Clearly the entomological predecessor of the English slang term "thirst."

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Why isn’t “phonetically” spelled phonetically?

Thanks, Obama!
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