May 3, 2011

A word for the Mideast?



Let's take a vote.
ochlocracy / aw-klah-krê-see / noun
Mob rule, government by the rabble.Linguist Robert Beard writes: The compounding form -cracy today is added to Greek stems with the same abandon that they are combined with phobia and -ology. We meet words likegerontocracy, gynecocracy, plutocracy. Like all these, ochlocracy touts an adjective, ochlocratic(al), and an adverb,

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