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Apr. 14th, 2003 09:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxThe fact that this word[1] exists really amuses me:
tmesis \TMEE-sis\, noun:
In grammar and rhetoric, the separation of the parts of a compound word, now generally done for humorous effect; for example, "what place soever" instead of "whatsoever place," or "abso-bloody-lutely."
Examples of tmesis:
If on the first, how heinous e'er it be,
To win thy after-love I pardon thee.
--Shakespeare, Richard II
His income-tax return, he remarked, was the "most rigged-up marole" he'd ever seen.
--Frederic Packard
In two words, im possible.
--Samuel Goldwyn
[1]http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2003/04/14.html
tmesis \TMEE-sis\, noun:
In grammar and rhetoric, the separation of the parts of a compound word, now generally done for humorous effect; for example, "what place soever" instead of "whatsoever place," or "abso-bloody-lutely."
Examples of tmesis:
If on the first, how heinous e'er it be,
To win thy after-love I pardon thee.
--Shakespeare, Richard II
His income-tax return, he remarked, was the "most rigged-up marole" he'd ever seen.
--Frederic Packard
In two words, im possible.
--Samuel Goldwyn
[1]http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2003/04/14.html
