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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Flummery

Here is the latest entry for the Words, Wonderful Words page:  flummery.  According to Visual Thesaurus,

“This word has sound sense, in that it sounds a lot like what it is: insincere talk or flattery. It's from a Welsh word denoting a kind of porridge, and thus shares a niche in English with pablum, another porridge word that also has a disparaging meaning pertaining to language.”

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