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p-d-ball t1_ja2fp2l wrote

Reply to comment by Chucks_u_Farley in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged

"Etym" meaning "I have no freaking idea" and "ology" meaning "love of," which secretly means "study of" in Ancient Greek.

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Card_Zero t1_ja37i7w wrote

Nuh-uh, -ology is (from lógos) words, reckoning, and narrative. No aspect of loving any of it.

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