Today's Word "Cacoepy"
Published in Vocabulary
cacoepy \kaek-O-eh-pee or KAEK-o-e-pee\ (noun) - Incorrect pronunciation.
"Astute readers of Arcamax's daily vocabulary ezine need never engage in cacoepy, nor clumsy misspellings."
The first part of today's word comes from the Greek kakos "bad." The Proto-Indo-European root is kakka- "to defecate." Words like "poppycock" and "cacophony" have their origins in the same root. The second half, -epy, is from Greek: epos "song, word." Its PIE root is wekw-, which also turns up in "vocal," "voice," "invoke" and "vote."
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