#tmesis

tmesis (English, Linguistics Dialect) [t(ə)ˈmiːsɪs] the separation of parts of a compound word by an intervening word or words, heard mainly in informal speech (e.g., a whole nother story; shove it back any-old-where in the pile).

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unf*ckingbelievable

tmesis (English, Linguistics Dialect) [t(ə)ˈmiːsɪs] the separation of parts of a compound word by an intervening word or words, heard mainly in informal speech (e.g., a whole nother story; shove it back any-old-where in the pile).

meow (English) [miˈaʊ̯] onomatopoeia for the sound a cat makes.

"Ex-fucking-cuse me?"

And I think it ought to be:

"Ex-fucking-scuse me?"

I think the sound represented by xc is actually three consonants, k-s-k, and the point of separability is between the first two, not the last two, and I think sound is more important than spelling when you're doing this*.

This one was weird because I’m not a fan of writing about writing, so I used the word more as a point of reference for the poem... format deviation! 😬😂

Word: tmesis Definition: the interpolation of one or more words between the parts of a compound word.

“I hope you know just how abso- freaking-lute- ly brave you are to shoulder all that weight and still manage joy.”

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