UD had to look at excellerate for awhile… Think about it…
Since it isn’t a word, she found no definition for it. The inventive Urban Dictionary has a definition for excelerate –
To succeed at something so quickly you excelerate.
– which gets at the brilliance of the mistake. It’s actually a portmanteau – “a blend of two … words or morphemes into one new word.” To excel; and to accelerate.
Anyway, it’s a word a commenter uses after a Wall Street Journal article updates us on the wretched thing that is law school now. Very few jobs. Applications way down.
Makes UC Irvine and – even more – U Mass look terribly clever. Taxpayers in these states get to subsidize these bright new law schools.
October 2nd, 2011 at 8:50AM
There are portmanteaus. There are Sniglets. And there are malapropisms. Discuss.