I daresay I might be accused of today’s word of the day…
July 21, 2008
PRONUNCIATION: (gram-uh-TOL-uh-tree) MEANING: noun: The worship of words: regard for the letter while ignoring the spirit of something.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek gramma (letter) + -latry (worship).
USAGE: “The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.”Robert Dale Owen; The Debatable Land Between This World And the Next; Trubner and Co; 1871. Word from Wordsmith.org. Previous grammar posts here.
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There went my tongue.
Incidentally, did you know it only takes a mere twelve foot-pounds of pressure to remove a human tongue? I learned this nugget from those social ballerina’s down at the gun range. I can’t tell you how exciting it is to be hip to who are super proficient with handguns these days. Hint: They wouldn’t be able to pronounce this either.
Why isn’t there a word for the worship of all things chocolate?
Chocolatry? No such word exists. If you REALLY like chocolate, you go right to chocoholic. Do they have a twelve step program?