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chyron8472
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Disney to buy 20th (21st) Century Fox? (Disney has now bought them - 14 Dec '17)
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15-Dec-2017, 11:20 AM

oojason said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

DominicCobb said:

you think most people are anyway.

What’s a word for “higher than most but lower than all?”

utmost

ut·most
ˈətˌmōst/
adjective

1.
most extreme; greatest.

noun

1.
the greatest or most extreme extent or amount.

Yeah but all would be the greatest or most extreme, so try again.

exceedingly.

hypermajority.
supermajority.

penomnis. (which isn’t in the dictionary but is a derived from the latin prefix “pen-” (eg. penultimate) meaning almost, and “omnis” meaning all, so it could valid, albeit people wouldn’t know what you meant by it since it’s not in common vocabulary.

 
 

I think it’s ‘pen omnis’ (two words) - my Latin is a little rusty - though still remember the smack around the back of head when taking the mick, as young teenagers do, in Latin class many years ago.

Language is fluid. And this is the English language, not the Latin language. English often takes various words or parts of words and smooshes them together to create a new word. In effect, it is one word if we adopt it as one word.

Also, pen is a prefix. I would think saying “penomnis” should be two words is like saying “pandemic” should be two or three words (from “pan” meaning all, “demos” meaning people, and “ic” meaning pertaining to). But again, pandemic in our language does not mean “pertaining to all people”, it means a contagion that pertains to all people. So a word can mean what we want it to or be organized how we want it to.