Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Saturday, 23 April 2022

A Cheap Remark.

How war changes language !
Yesterday I heard the word
besiegement —

an example of making
a simple word complicated
and ponderous
by adding a redundant
prefix and suffix.


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