When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Fri Oct 7 16:33:38 EDT 2005


Terry Hancock wrote:

> By the way, dict.org doesn't think "execresence" is a word,
> although I interpret the neologism as meaning something like
> "execrable utterance":
>
> dict.org said:
> > No definitions found for 'execresence'!

however, 'excrescence' appears to be a perfectly cromulent word:

http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2004/08/22.html
http://www.wordsmith.org/words/excrescence.html

maybe dict.org just needs to work on their "did you mean" algorithm?

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