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INTRODUCTION
​[A - C] - [D - F] - [G - I] - [J - L]
[M - O] - [P - R] - [S - U] - [V - Z]

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Word Formation - How Words are Coined
​Tracing the Etymology of a Word
Classifying a Word as Archaic or Obsolete
Misusing a Word Means 20 to Life in the Pen
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PART 7 - FROM S to U


​SABOTEUR: Voices of the Saboteur (sometimes called gremlins) tell you to not take any risks, to play it safe, to stay with the status quo. They remind you of the dangers of both success and failure, and try to keep you from individuality, passion, and powerful creativity. You may hear them anytime, but they most often surface when you are getting ready to do something creative, powerful, and fulfilling. Learn to deal with them so they don’t prevent you from really shining a big light in the world.

SANCTITUDE - of a writer: chastity or decorum of expression. From 1855

SARCAST - this noun, in print since the 1600s, refers to a sarcastic writer.

SATISDICTION - Saying just enough

SCART - to write, esp. to write indistinctly; to make any kind of mark on paper; to draw; to sculpture. From 1814.

SCENARIST - one who writes screenplays.

SCRABBLEMENT - the writing of a rambling character like that of a madman.

SCRANK - to make ill-formed, sprawling letters; to write in a scrawling hand. From 1904.

SCRAT - to scratch with a pen; to write. From 1821

SCRATTLE to scratch with a pen; to write. From 1873

SCREED DOWN- to write down at great length. From 1835.

SCREEVE - to write (1813). To talk, read, or write fast and continuously; to reel off a story (1874)

SCRIBATIOUS - describes someone who is good at writing and fond of doing it.

SCRIBBLER - one who scribbles, especially an author regarded as very minor, untalented, or disreputable or a writer of no reputation.

SCRIBBLE-SCRALL - to scribble, to write badly. From 1901

SCRIBE - to write; to mark, to inscribe. From 1787

SCRIGGLE - to write badly; to scrawl. From 1904

SCRINIARY - an archivist

SCRIPTITATION- writing continuously

SCRIPTORIUM - a place for writing or a writer’s room. From 1774, Late Latin scriptorium"place for writing," noun use of neuter of Latin scriptorius "pertaining to writing,"

SCRIPTURIENT - Having or characterized by a strong urge to write, or a passion for writing. In early use especially: that produces an abundance of trivial or inferior writing; characterized by this. Mid 17th century (in an earlier sense). From post-classical Latin scripturient-, scripturiens, present participle of scripturire meaning “desire to write.” It is from a book by Peter Heylyn, a seventeenth-century English author whose Examen Historicum (1659) sought to debunk the errors made in recent works of history.

SCRIVE - to write. From 1813.

SCRIVENER - a professional copyist; a scribe. One who drafts legal instruments such as contracts and wills.

SEMANTICS — The study of the development and changes of the meanings of speech forms. Semantics is also a study of the process by which meaning is derived from symbols, signs, text, and other meaning-bearing forms.

SEMANTICSATIATION - when you say or read a word so many times it stops making sense

SEMANTOLOGY - science of meanings of words.

SEMIOTICS - the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.

SESQUIPEDALIAN - a word for somebody who loves using long words.

SHANACHIE - a teller of old tales or legends. Irish Gaelic for ‘seanchaidhe’ meaning “antiquary or historian.”

SHTURMOVSHCHINA - this refers to the practice of writing frantically just before a deadline. It comes from the former Soviet Union, when people worked at full pelt (not just at writing, but any job) in order to meet a deadline. The word literally refers to a storming or assault. Douglas Adams tells it the best. “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

SIGLE - an initial or other character used to denote a word. From 1614

SKELP - to write or perform in a lively manner

SKRIEVER - an inferior writer; a mean scribe. From 1904

SLANGUIST - linguist specializing in slang words and phrases.

SLING INK - to make a business of writing. From 1896.

SMEAR MERCHANT - seem in the ignoble profession of smear journalism, some writers have been known as smear merchants or ‘smear-mongers’. They use smear tactics in smear sheets, doing smear jobs.

SNOBOGRAPHER - a writer on, a describer of, snobs.

SONNETEER - writer of sonnets

SPLANG - sharp words. From 1970s US Black slang

SPRACHGEFÜHL - the character of a language: An intuitive sense of what is linguistically appropriate. It was borrowed from the German language at the end of the 19th century and combines two German nouns, ‘Sprache’, meaning "language, speech," and ‘Gefühl’ meaning "feeling."

SQUIBBLER - this very rare term - only found in 1671 (and possibly a misspelling of squibber) - and it is a writer (scribbler) who “quibbles” or what we know from the Internet today; a writer of pretentious think pieces, snotty comments, and mean tweets. Another relevant term is ‘anonymuncle’ meaning an annoying anonymous writer. Another one is INK JERKER.

STALL-LEARNING - Stall-literature was Thomas Carlyle’s word for the low-quality literature found at 19th century marketplace bookstalls. Along similar lines, the English poet Richard Leigh coined the word stall-learning as far back as the late 1600s to refer to the superficial knowledge of a subject that is picked up by flicking idly through a book—which is also known as index-learning.

STEGANOGRAPHY - The art of secret writing; cryptography. The word means to hide secret data by encoding it electronically in another, innocuous file.

STORIOLOGY - study of the development of legends and tales is called storiology. That makes sense as a story is a legend or tale.

STRIVE - to write with care. From 1904

SYLLABARY - opposed to a dictionary, which is a collection of words, a syllabary is a collection of symbols. Each symbol represents a syllable and they are put together to write a language. Chinese and Japanese are examples of a syllabary language.

SYNAESTHESIA - brain disorder characterized by a cross-referencing of senses: for example, sounds might be "seen" and colors might be "heard."

SYNALOEPHA - omitting one of two vowels, one of which occurs at the end of one word and the other of which occurs at the beginning of the next word; a type of metaplasm. "Th'other," a shortening of "the other."

SYNCATEGOREMATIC - meaningless or unable to form a term without other words

SYNCHYSIS - confused arrangement of words in a sentence, either by accident or on purpose; an extreme instance of hyperbaton or anastrophe.

SYNONYMICON - dictionary of synonyms is a synonymicon. Also known as a thesaurus.

SYNTAX - the study of the construction of sentences in a language. The formation and composition of phrases and sentences.

TACENDA – A statement or sentiment that is better left unspoken. (Latin)

TACHYGRAPHER - a shorthand writer; a stenographer: used especially of the writers of the shorthand used among the ancient Greeks and Romans, also called notaries.

TACHIYOMI - to stand in a bookstore and read a book without buying it. (Japanese)

TAUTOLOGY - when you repeat an idea that has already been stated with another word or phrase.

TILLY-VALLY - An expression that means nonsense.

TOKEN UP - put up in writing, to write out. From 1535

TOOTLER - a writer of ‘tootle’, verbiage, or twaddle. Early meanings referred to it as birdsong or the notes of a wind instrument, both of which can be pretty but rarely present a logical argument.

TOPONYMY - the study of place names, their origins, meanings, use, and typology.

TREPVERTER - literally, staircase words, a witty riposte or comeback you think of only when it is too late to use. (Yiddish)

TRISTICHOUS - Arranged in three rows or ranks. A tristich is a group of 3 lines of poetry or a stanza of 3 lines. A distich is a couplet.

TROPOLOGY - The use of metaphors in writing or speaking. To tropologize is to use it as a metaphor such as "He is the Nixon of politics."

TROUBADOR — a French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provençal in the 11th to 13th centuries, especially on the theme of courtly love.

TSUNDOKU - the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piling it up together with other such unread books.(Japanese)

TYPOLOGY - the classification of languages according to their linguistic trait.

UGLYOGRAPHIZE - to spell uncouthly; to write in an uncouth manner. From 1834

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