Logophile Definition, Etymology, and Use

Logophile Definition, Etymology, and Use A logophile is an admirer of words. Additionally called aâ word sweetheart or philologos. A related term is logomaniac, characterized by the Oxford English Dictionary as an individual who is fanatically inspired by words. EtymologyFrom the Greek, word love Models and Observations I am a deep rooted logophile if not a far and away verbivore. I have a decent ear and a decent memory for words, its only a sort of spasm or stunt, the manner in which some fortunate individuals can improvise in the wake of hearing it once or check cards at blackjack or spot lucky charms. Strange and specific words will in general cabin in my psyche, where they stick around, regularly for quite a long time, until I need them. American English has an incredibly rich jargon and we normally utilize such a tiny portion of it; I think that is a disgrace, or possibly it is smarter to state I consider it an invitation.I compose with two word references directly at my elbow . . .. I anticipate visiting my word references over again every time I plunk down to compose. The equivalent goes for when Im perusing and I run over an obscure word: Quaternions? Hurray! I get the opportunity to go to the dictionary!I know that is most likely sort of stunning. I surmise I am relying on the readership of freaks.(Michael Chabon, Questions for Michael Chabon. The New York Times, Feb. 8, 2007)I am a clinical logophile, and in utilizing words, I will regularly go to the Greek or Latin roots; doing so causes me use words more precisely.(Robert B. Taylor, Medical Writing: A Guide for Clinicians, Educators, and Researchers, second ed. Springer, 2011) Jargon Building[The] doubt of new words, a dislike of verbal curiosity, is obtained in school from bleak English educators still in bondage to Hemingwayesque simplicities. You know their central adage from your own school days: consistently utilize the basic word, class! Never search out an equivalent word or extraordinary outside term. Thank heavens I had a dad who educated the exceptionally inverse: consistently find the rarest yet still right word. By doing that, a youthful understudy achieves two things. You grow your jargon and you flummox appointed academic power, specifically the dull teacher.( Bill Casselman, Where a Dobdob Meets a Dikdik: A Word Lovers Guide to the Weirdest, Wackiest, and Wonkiest Lexical Gems. Adams Media, 2010)The Sweetest-Sounding Words in English (1950)While the greater part of the words that [columnist Frank] Colby talks about are recommended by his perusers, Colby reversed the situation in 1942 by asking them: What are the most mellifluous English words? The best ten by famous vote: mother, memory, Cellophane, bellboy, despairing, belladonna, flamingo, wild, tambourine, lavender. A week ago Logophile Colby detailed the aftereffects of another perusers survey. Mother had slipped a piece, however was as yet recorded among the main ten. There were eight new top picks. The 1950 hit march: song, bedtime song, mimosa, memory, smooth, mother, moonbeam, mumbling, excellent, lanolin.(The Press: Mimosa, Moonbeams Memory. Time magazine, Jan. 30, 1950) Making KingdomsA love of words originates from crafted by messing with language. We learn words by hearing them, moving them around on our tongues and in our psyches like a little kid does as she learns language. An individual who adores language plays with ithears words and connections them with different sounds, different implications, and different words. The examples and hints of language are captivating to the admirer of words. From these associations, numerous writers discover sonnets. Verse comes as Harry Behn composes (1968) from going gaga for language. Rebecca Kai Dotlich says in A Kingdom of Words, that a word may appear to be only a word, however an artist can make a realm around it.(Barbara Chatton, Using Poetry Across the Curriculum: Learning to Love Language. Greenwood, 2010) Otherwise called: word sweetheart, philologos