Pronounced: WIND-roh, noun/verb
Notes: Looks like “window” misspelled
Yesterday’s word
The word cacography means
- poor penmanship; bad handwriting
- incorrect spelling
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid- to late 1500s
Background / Comments
I recognized recognized the parts of our word caco- (bad), which comes from the Greek word kakos (bad) and graphy (writing), which comes from the Greek word graphia. So, our word means literally “bad writing”, so I knew it meant bad handwriting, or thus penmanship. However, I was not aware that it also included bad spelling.
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