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General Discussion / Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« on: January 03, 2013, 08:50:11 pm »Quote from: wordnik.com
hyperthesis
Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In ancient prosody, interchange of quantity in two successive places of a logaśdic series, so that in one of two lines metrically corresponding, as in strophe and antistrophe, a long is apparently transferred to a position before a short, which it would normally succeed, or a short transferred so as to exchange places with a preceding long. See polyschematic.
n. In Philol., a transfer or “'attraction” of a letter from the syllable to which it originally belonged to another syllable immediately preceding or following it; orthographic transposition, or metathesis: thus, in Greek, μέλαινα is used for μελανια.
n. In the Gr. Ch., a fast in addition to those regularly observed.
Also some sort of research group in New Zealand.
