Aug. 4th, 2014

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An early-morning brain-twister for the etymologically inclined:

If a homological adjective is one that is true of itself, e.g., "polysyllabic", and a heterological adjective is one which is not true of itself, e.g., "bisyllabic", then what about "heterological"? Is it heterological or not? -- Grelling's Paradox

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