What nonsensical words do you like to use in your not so everyday speech?

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Which is funny as the word combobulate is a back formation from Discombobulate.

    back-formation:

    A term formed by removing an apparent or real prefix or suffix from an older term; for example, the noun pea arose because the final /z/ sound in pease sounded like a plural suffix. Similarly, the verb edit is a back-formation from the earlier noun editor.