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cacology
Language; General language
Bad speaking, e.g. bad choice of words or grossly incorrect pronunciation.
caconym
Language; General language
An incorrect or improperly formed technical term, especially in biology and botany.
cacozelia
Language; General language
Attempting to appear learned by using foreign words, especially Latin and Greek terms (e.g. Cacozelia is definitement the bon mot.)
caesura
Language; General language
An audible pause in a line of verse. It is usually indicated by either punctuation marks or double pipes (||).
calque
Language; General language
A word or phrase derived from another language by a word-for-word translation. For example, the word superman was coined as a part-for-part translation of the German Übermensch, over man.
CamelCase
Language; General language
The writing of compound words so that the different words in the compound are capitalized and concatenated.
canonical form
Language; General language
Another name for a lemma, the member of the lexeme (i.e. a set of words that have the same base form) that is chosen by convention to represent the whole set as, say, the headword in a dictionary.
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