Traveling Words: Luggage, Baggage, and the Recombobulation Station
Word Matters
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Discombobulate
Word matters is produced by mariam webster in collaboration with new england public media. Jonathan green lists a number of variants for discomboblate. They are all words that are evidence of the playful inclinations of english speakers. The word conundrum is widely assumed to have been made up to sound like a latin word, he says.
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