Thursday, January 2, 2014

#2 / Precarity




The January 2014 edition of In These Times features the word "precarity" on its cover. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, that's a word that doesn't actually exist: 

precarity

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procreate
prokaryote
preterit
perchlorate
pericardial
paregoric
hypercritic
precarious
proletariat
precritical
preliterate
Prakrit
portrait
parquetry


I prefer words that aren't made up,* but the articles are worth reading!


*A few days after writing this brief comment, I decided to look further. Of course, the fact that a word isn't in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary doesn't mean that the word is "made up." At least if you believe Wikipedia, the word "precarity" has been around since at least 1952, being used in that year by Dorothy Day, one of my favorite people in the world. My apologies to In These Times. And the articles are worth reading!

Image Credit: 
http://inthesetimes.com/archives/covers_ind/38/01/

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