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Thursday, January 11, 2024

Bad Etymology

Ignoramus, n. from Latin ignis fire and French ramasser to pick up or collect: someone prone to witch-hunts and easily carried away.

Reliable, adj. from re- again, lie a deliberate falsehood and -able: the kind of untruth and/or purveyor of untruths which can be profitably utilised more than once.

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