Egypt4u

I came across this one in a book of pictures.

PAREIDOLIA

We seem to have a word for everything......you just have to search for them.

Good word Grandad, I often suffer from that

Horus wrote:Good word Grandad, I often suffer from that

So do I H, especially when laying on a lounger on a summers day looking skywards.

OMG I actually have this! Grandad you've finally diagnosed me!

Interesting word. I'd never heard of it before.

FROSTAGE: NEW Canadian word that means being held hostage by cold weather!

IGANNATION - don't cheat looking up the meaning!

very cryptic LLL I thought it may have meant 'being bitten by an Iguana'
Like your FROSTAGE by the way

I personally like "Frostage." Don't know who thought it up but it is pertinent and a word I can easily remember.

FLUMMERY - and I really don't like it

But did you know that it is also a whipped up sweet pudding?

I thought I knew it, as a dessert only thank you Horus will look it up.

I didn't know Flummery as anything but - interesting - it is both a dessert AND empty emotions.

I sometimes wonder how words are assigned their meaning(s)? How one word OR really set of sounds comes to mean this while another set of sounds comes to mean something else.

Zabernism - misuse of military power, bullying

Never heard of this word before.

Seems like the world is full of Zabernists

Definitely these days the world seems full (although I suspect we were ALWAYS full of Zabernists 'cept we never heard about them immediately in graphic living colour daily!)

NESCIENCE - didn't have a clue what this word meant - NESCIENCE

Me too LLL

I had to Google that one LLL. Apparently it means 'lack of knowledge or awareness: ignorance'

They were talking on Breakfast TV this morning about new words now officially in the Oxford English dictionary.
Words like 'twerk' and 'mint' and a latest one 'forsure' that I hear increasingly particularly among the sporting fraternity.

But one I really like is 'Affluenza' a social disease resulting from extreme materialism and excessive consumerism.

I like Affluenza too - will add that word to my own personal dictionary of words I use