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Weird Words: Epeolatry
The worship of words.
Though an appropriate term for this forum, it hasn’t achieved any great success in the world at large. It’s not even especially old, since its first known user, and presumably its creator, was Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his Professor at the Breakfast Table of 1860: “Time, time only, can gradually wean us from our Epeolatry, or word-worship, by spiritualizing our ideas of the thing signified.”

It derives from Greek epeos, a word, plus the -latry ending from Greek latreia, worship, that turns up also in words such as idolatry. For some reason, epeos lost out in the Greek-roots popularity stakes to logos. However, epic is from the same source, an epoist is a writer of epic poetry, and cacoepy means faulty pronunciation (a word that’s suitably easy to say wrongly: it’s , roughly CACO-ipi.)

Its appearances are so few that the tag “obscure” attached to it in some dictionaries is all too apt. However, I did find it in a work called Anurada Negotiates Our Wobbly Planet, a self-published title of 2006 by Roger Day: “I read my dictionary for a few more minutes, until tiredness eventually brought my epeolatry to an end for the day.”

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Weird Words: Epeolatry
The worship of words.

Brazilian dude

Based on idolatry, I think it could be epeolater/epeolator (noun), epeolatrous (adjective) and epeolatry (noun).

Brazilian dude

I didn't force anything.

Brazilian dude

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So here's a Double Dactyl to celebrate:

Higgledy Piggledy
Dude the Brazilian
Forced the declension
Of quite a new word.

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When a German gets his hands on an adjective, he declines it and keeps on declining it until the common sense is all declined out of it. That's right. I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
-- Mark Twain