NEA New English Academy: March 2015

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Fwd: paramnesia: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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Mar. 31, 2015

paramnesia

\par-am-NEE-zhuh\

noun
1. Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
2. the inability to recall the correct meaning of a word.

Quotes

The subtle, recurring confusion between illusion and reality that was characteristic of paramnesia fascinated the chaplain, and he knew a number of things about it.
-- Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

Origin

Paramnesia is a New Latin construction that entered English in the late 1800s. It derives from the Greek roots pará meaning "beside; beyond" and amnēstía meaning "oblivion."

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Fwd: funambulist: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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Mar. 30, 2015

funambulist

\fyoo-NAM-byuh-list\

noun
1. a tightrope walker.

Quotes

…after a week there had been an office crisis. The cabaret editor died on the job, in an incident involving a French funambulist and seven live eels (one of which was in flames).
-- Will Self, Cock and Bull, 1992

Origin

Funambulist came to English in the late 1700s from the Latin fūnambulus meaning "ropedancer."

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