The latest xkcd:
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Trocheeotomy? Or should it be trochee-ectomy? (~trocheeectomy)
[Some additional things:
Here's an interesting chart of trochee bigrams from the xkcd blag:
[again, click for larger image]
And Mark Liberman on Language Log offers some discussion here. (I imagine xkcd is thinking of Snow Crash rather than The Big U. By the bye, the linguistic-y part of Snow Crash I've always felt to be the weakest part of the book.) ]
[Some additional things:
Here's an interesting chart of trochee bigrams from the xkcd blag:
[again, click for larger image]
And Mark Liberman on Language Log offers some discussion here. (I imagine xkcd is thinking of Snow Crash rather than The Big U. By the bye, the linguistic-y part of Snow Crash I've always felt to be the weakest part of the book.) ]
The alt-text:
