6 January 2021

Efficacaxity

EFF-i cass-y.

or

ef-FIC-ass-y? (Vide recentia.)

The other day, I heard an even more gorgeously exotic verbal flower:

effi-CAX-ity.

Our unlettered classes are so adorably sweet.

3 comments:

  1. EffiCAXity... Such a 'cacacious' turn of the phrase, no? If I am permitted such a neologism.

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  2. I've always assumed "caricature" should be pronounced with a slight emphasis on the first syllable, but yesterday on YouTube I heard an English-speaking professor of a leading British university pronounce it with a distinct emphasis on the second syllable: "caRICature". Now I'm confused and don't know what it right!

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  3. Perhaps a "caricature" of an English Professor?

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