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OED-ification: A Quiz

In my professional opinion, the Oxford English Dictionary is more fun than a box of monkeys. Read More

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Can a din of BS cause deafication?

Funny words

I want to know what these words mean. How did you even find them? What does "ification" really mean? You got me all curioused up.

Ification explanation

The ones in the OED are easy to find, because you can search the etymologies by a suffix, which is what I did. The rest are real words too: I found them in various dark dungeons of the Internet. As you can probably tell, I'm a little too into the word-collecting thing. I think "ification" can mean a few things, but here's a for instance--the OED's definition of assification: "The action of making an ass of (a person); asinine act." There are only two examples, both from the 19th century: 1823 Blackw. Mag. XIV. 576/2 The last assification I shall notice..would settle the business in the most scrupulous court de Lunatico inquirendo. 1879 C. M. YONGE Magnum Bonum III. xxxii. 682, I ruined you all..with that assification. Heh! That doesn't like an old word at all, does it?

please, I want to know the

please, I want to know the meaning of "YouTube-ification of video"? what does the suffix ification means?

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