Monday, November 12, 2007

achronoliterate v. aliterate

This was in Anu Garg's AWADMail dated November 11:

From: William Abbott (wbabbott3 comcast.net)
Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--aliterate
Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/aliterate.html

Maybe I am an achronoliterate (I made that up), someone who does not
have enough time to read everything that he wants to read!



If there's a word for a person who is interested in reading but doesn't have enough time to read all the books he wants to read, then it must be a pretty common phenomenon. This came up in the context of the word "aliterate," which Garg says is a person who can read but is not interested enough to do so.

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