Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Neologism 16: Awkword
This word reminds me of Dr. Sobol's story about summer camp in which he is isolated for his exorbitantly pervasive use of tremendously long words that only he knows the meaning of. Another professor that I had at MACU was also a firm believer in awkords. We began to refer to his vocabulary as Dr. Bobisms. An awkword is simply a word that is difficult to pronounce.
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