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-ology

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Etymology

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From-o-(interconsonantal vowel) +‎-logy.

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-ology

  1. Alternative form of-logy,used for phonological reasons when the preceding morpheme ends in certain consonant sounds.
  2. (oftenhumorous)added to an ordinary English word to create a name for a (possibly non-existent) field of study.
    • 1843, Thomas Chandler Haliburton,The Attache; or, Sam Slick in England:
      Qell, he knows all about mineralogy, and geology, and astrology, and every thing a'most, except what he ought to know, and that isdollar-ology.
    • 1857, Delia Bacon,The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded:
      ...so long as a merehumanword-ology is suffered to remain here, clogging all with its deadly impotence...
    • 1916, Jack London,The Little Lady of the Big House:
      It seems he'd been making original researches in anthropology, orfolk-lore-ology, or something like that.
    • 1998,British Telecom advert from 1988 withMaureen Lipman - Ology‎[1]:
      He gets an-ology and says he failed!
    • 2010 October 17,Hadley Freeman, “Tattoos: what makes one spiritual and another Katona-esque?”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:
      Yet it is interesting to research thetattoo-ology of Katona right after a yoga class.

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