Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Pecksniffianism

👉 In the context of linguistics, "pecksniffianism" refers to a linguistic phenomenon where speakers of languages with close ties such as English and Spanish use the same words in different ways. This is known as a "peck sniff." For example, in the sentence "I like pecks," both the subject ("I") and the verb (like) are in the past tense, while in "Peck sniffs," there is no explicit time reference but instead, it

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