Tuesday 12 August 2014

Hamarthritia

Hamarthritia: noun. Arthritis caused by making a horrible mistake that involves ham. Obviously this word is derived from the word hamartithia which means being likely to make a mistake. Hamarthritia was derived by the Supreme Council of Supreme Medical Specialists of Supremacy simply because of the number of cases that could be described using the word. In total exactly two. Yeah, two. The council was really bored and had nothing to do between 1985 and 2014 and so decided to find the most obscure cases in medical history and create even more obscure names for them. They were eventually stopped in this endeavour by the Movement for the Rationalisation of the English Language, which fought them in a huge battle on top of Mount Fuji, where the Movement eventually came out victorious after 13 hours of gruesome fighting. Apparently dictionaries are excellent shields against scalpels.

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