Timeline for Is there a word for words that people are more likely to have read than heard, thus don't know how to pronounce?
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| Mar 9, 2017 at 14:57 | comment | added | Francis Norton | Using @sumelic's reference above, a couple of lines down the author refers to "visualism" - does anyone else feel that using a word you know from reading but don't know how to pronounce could be called a "visualism"? | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 10:20 | comment | added | Francis Norton | That's a good suggestion, and a lot closer to meeting the challenge than I expected any one to come up with. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 17:04 | comment | added | mahmud k pukayoor | No etymology is available. But it's not Martin Jay coined it; his neologism is 'anti-ocularcentric', as per your link. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 16:13 | comment | added | herisson | Or maybe it comes from a French ocularcentrisme? | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 16:08 | comment | added | herisson | Good find, that does seem relevant. This word seems quite ugly to me though... a compound word ending in "centric" whose first part is an adjective ending in "-ar"? I wonder who is to blame for its existence. Apparently Martin Jay? | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 15:59 | history | answered | mahmud k pukayoor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |