Final Words on the Election

Anu Garg’s long-tenured A.Word.A.Day website has exhumed four real words that carry an eerie resonance for this campaign season.

obambulate
bidentate
palinode
meeken

I should point out that these are not mere coinages by low-grade political yucksters. These are real English-language words that existed long before public discussions sought to distinguish between the change we need and change we can trust.

Click on the links above for more. But to cite just one example:

Palinode: noun: A poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem.

As the Obambulator-in-Chief has been saying recently: You can’t make this stuff up.

[A tip o' the fez to the maddeningly consistent finder-of-cool-stuff Very Short List for bringing this to my attention.]