{"id":12779,"date":"2009-03-02T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/02\/word-of-the-day-inconcinnity\/"},"modified":"2009-03-02T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T13:40:09","slug":"word-of-the-day-inconcinnity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/02\/word-of-the-day-inconcinnity\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Inconcinnity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">My elite readers no doubt know this word, but I learned it just today.&#0160;It means lack of suitability or congruity: INELEGANCE.&#0160; &#39;Concinnity&#39; is also a word.&#0160; From the Latin <em>concinnitas<\/em>, from <em>concinnus<\/em>, skillfully put together, it means: harmony and often elegance of design especially of literary style in adaptation of parts to a whole or to each other. (<em>Webster&#39;s New Collegiate<\/em>, 1977, p. 234.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Never allow a word to escape your comprehension.&#0160; If you encounter a word&#0160;you don&#39;t know, write it down and look it up.&#0160; Keep a list of words and definitions in a notebook&#0160; you regularly consult.&#0160; It might be an online notebook&#0160;like this one.&#0160; Having written this post, &#39;inconcinnity&#39; is a word I am not likely to forget.&#0160; For there is nothing I write on this weblog that I do not reread,&#0160;with pleasure,&#0160;many times.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My elite readers no doubt know this word, but I learned it just today.&#0160;It means lack of suitability or congruity: INELEGANCE.&#0160; &#39;Concinnity&#39; is also a word.&#0160; From the Latin concinnitas, from concinnus, skillfully put together, it means: harmony and often elegance of design especially of literary style in adaptation of parts to a whole or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/02\/word-of-the-day-inconcinnity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word of the Day: Inconcinnity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}