Guy Down The Street

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for Nov 2, 2010 is especially appropriate: Psephology, which is the scientific study of elections. (Today is the field day for all US political pundits and general public with particular interest in psephology.)  “Psephology” is from the Greek word psephos for pebbles – the connection being that pebbles were used by the ancient Greeks in voting.

Kudos to the M-W guys for enlightening us every day.

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Posted on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 at 9:59 am in linguistics, politics   |  RSS feed