Tuesday, 30 October 2007

The only English word beginning with 'tm'

Tmesis. It means the insertion of a word inside another word, such as "In-flippin-credible".

A lot of you probably knew that, but I've been dreaming recently of telling Frank Butcher from Eastenders about this fact, and him reacting with great enthusiasm. So there. It's out of my head now and I can stop educating Frank Butcher.

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