Why is the "c" in the second syllable of "Connecticut" silent? The reason why this same letter goes unsounded in another place-name, that of the ancient city Ctesiphon, is that we've borrowed the Latin spelling but Anglicized the pronunciation. "Connecticut," by contrast, comes from an American Indian language, which would not have been written anyway at the time that the word was adopted into English. If the word is merely spoken in the same way as the Indians would have done, what the heck is that second "c" doing there?
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A Guide to Domanisms, my coinages, supposedly in alphabetical order
- "Not at" Albright: my name for brownskirt [q.v.] Madeleine Albright
- adultlescent: someone who's reached physical maturity, yet still behaves like a libidinous teenager
- American rugby: a more apt name for "football," which game involves the foot only if one's position is that of either kicker or punter
- APPA of 2009: the American Pork and Payoff Act of 2009 (known officially as the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, unofficially as the "Stimulus")
- brownskirt: by analogy with "brownshirt," a particularly militant feminist
- Deflatriots: the only NFL franchise ever to be caught cheating
- deprecession (from "depression" and "recession," with a play on "deep recession"): the economic downturn that began in the year that Reid and Pilosi (see below) took over the Congress
- Dud: the surname of a late Usan (see below) senator from Connecticut
- dumbbelle (or dumb belle): a beautiful but stupid woman or girl
- Emperor Nerobama: the name that I used for President Obama when he behaved as a tyrant and an enemy of Christianity
- Gestapobama: the branch of US government that enforced the dictates of Obama's Evil—I mean, Oval—Office
- goron: someone who believes in Al Gore's pseudo-science no matter what most real climatologists say about his outlandish pronouncements
- greenshirt: by analogy with "blackshirt" and "brownshirt," an ecological thug
- Hyperbowle (from "Superbowl" and "hyperbole"): an absurdly overrated athletic contest, which is viewed in places like Borneo and Svalbard by people who have hardly any knowledge of how the game is played
- igno-rant: the expressal of an uninformed and obnoxious opinion
- Kuwait War: my name for the 1991 clash between coalition forces and Iraq, which is usually known as the "Persian Gulf War" or simply as the "Gulf War," even though it had very little to do with the Persian Gulf
- Malarkey: the surname of a Usan (see below) politician from Massachusetts
- Michael Mooron: an obnoxious film-maker who seemingly always wears a cap indoors, perhaps to hide a lobotomy scar
- MisGovern: the surname of the 1972 Democratic nominee for the US presidency
- nutwork: a more appropos word than "network" to describe MSNBC
- Obama Nation (with an intentional pun on "abomination"): another name for the USA from 2009 to 2017
- ObamaCareless: the US medical system after being deformed—I mean, reformed—by the Democrats
- Obomba the Bungle Boy (after “Bomba the Jungle Boy”, a protagonist of 1940’s films): my newest nickname for Barack Obama, which I used for him when his administration demonstrated its apparent inability to do anything correctly
- Pilosi: the surname of a Usan (v.i) politician (note: "pilosi" are hairy hobgoblins)
- pinkshirt: by analogy with "brownshirt" and "blackshirt," a militant "Gay-rights activist"
- pop tart: a sexually immoral female celebrity
- President Obombast: the name that I used for President Obama when he used rhetoric to mislead rather than to lead
- President Yo'Mama: the name that I used for President Obama when he behaved like either a Black Panther or a pseudo tough guy
- Press Gang: news-media thugs
- purpleshirt: by analogy with "brownshirt" and "blackshirt," one of Big Labor's thugs (see Uncommon Commentary #171)
- Putrid: the surname of the Russian president
- quackpot: from "quack" and "crackpot," a pseudo-scientist like Paul Ehrlich, all of whose apocalyptic ecological predictions have proved laughably wrong
- retroversive: a term to replace "conservative" (which literally means "preserving things as they are")
- smutcom: one of Hollywood's typically dirty situation comedies from the late 1980's to the present
- stupidiot: a designation for someone who is so stupid or idiotic that neither word alone suffices
- Tedward: the first name of a late US Senator from Massachusetts
- Totalitarianism Lite: "Political Correctness"
- trashion: a trashy fashion, such as is worn by a pop tart (q.v.)
- Tree Stooges: see "goron"
- Us- or Usa-: a combining term (see "Usa")
- Usa (pronounced YOO-suh): a new name for the USA
- Usan (pronounced YOO-suhn): a noun meaning "someone from the Usa (see above)," or the corresponding adjectival form
- Weathergate: a superior name for "Climategate"
- Wrong: surname of a man whom Obama for 20 years described as his "spiritual mentor," until "discovering" him to be a ranting paranoiac who hates Whites, Jews, and the very country whose highest office Obama then held
- Yankanuck (from "Yank" and "Canuck"): someone who is both a Usan (see above) and a Canadian national
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If it doesn't need to be complicated, it will be.