Word of the Day: ALIENILOQUY

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin alieniloquium, from alienus (foreign) + -loquium (from loqui (to speak))

EXAMPLE
“… In my dream she lived only to magnify my existence. Like an intravenous poison I kept topping her up. And then rain interrupted my alieniloquy. …”

From: Fastyngange
By Tim Wynne-Jones, 1988

PRONUNCIATION
ay-lee-uh-NIL-uh-kwee

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