Thursday 17 July 2014

Batrachophrench

Batrachophrench: adjective. On the 24th of June, 1996 the Movement for the Rationalisation of the English Language combined the two words French and batrachophagous into one word batrachophrench, so as to eliminate confusion between the two. The main reason for this was that the two words mean literally the same thing, where French refers to a person from France and batrachophagous refers to something feeding on frogs.

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