Something-mology

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Something-mology

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35289568

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This is so dumb but I love it so much. I’m gonna create another account just to upvote this brilliant idiocy.

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The fact it's not called "antomolgoy" is a tragically wasted opportunity.

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This is actually how I remember the difference. Ents for ants, ets for etc.

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What do you call the study of giant sentient trees?

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A great way to spend your weekend?

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I'm totally here for the sentiment, but I think it's just because the average person might not know one or the other of these words. They're both pretty specific in their usage.

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Etymologoid is something like the history of a word.

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I hate you for making me read this with my own eyes.

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Apparently the word rust is related to the word red, but not the word dust.

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I thought Entomology was the study of treebeard and his friends

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Just the tree dudes. They lost the wives.

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Can I sell you my craft of etsymology?

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That would be an ecumenical matter

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I often struggle to know who that fits with epistemology.

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Maybe if it's a Firefly game tool...I did that there when GF9 stopped the full mats.

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cries in pedologists

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Oh, this is double hard, isn't it. My initial thought was that it was a confusion between paedology and pedology (in my head something to do with feet!). But it's actually soil science... TIL :)

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Can't upvote because 420 lol.

All memes should aspire to this.

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