Wednesday 31 July 2013

Reocur

Reocur: verb. When something, perhaps an action, happens again and again repeatedly. The cleverer readers of this blog may have noticed that the word is the combination of the words "reoccur" and "recur". In fact Lewis Carroll and the Movement for the Rationalisation of the English Language invented the word simply to remove the confusion over these two original words. However reocur never caught on; it was used only in 2652 academic texts and so the eternal confusion of "reoccur" and "recur" rages on.

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