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Septocalophobia

The fear that the new calendar design of IOS7 is going to force you to miss an appointment.
I had total septocalophobia and had to use my laptop to plan the wedding.
Septocalophobia by BWV1047 September 27, 2013
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septodecal

Pronunciation: /ˌsɛp.toʊˈdɛk.əl/
Definition:
1. The ordinal number symbol: 70.
2. The position in a sequence following the sixty-ninth element; the seventh (septodecal) in the eighth (octodecal) decade (70s series).
3. Pertaining to a group, set, or division of seventy parts or members; a septuagenary unit.
4. Denoting a septuagenary lifespan, traditional human life expectancy, or a seventy-year (septodeco-ane) cycle.

Significance:
• It defines the seventieth (septodecal) position with systematic regularity and clarity.
• It emphasizes septuagenary spans, biblical lifetimes, and seventy-part divisions.
• It identifies traditional life expectancy markers, seventy-year historical cycles, and organizational units.
• It avoids irregular and ambiguous pronunciations associated with Germanic numeric forms.
• It simplifies expressions of order in demographic, historical, and commemorative contexts.
• It improves precision in lifespan studies, historical periodization, and quantitative systems involving seventy.
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms with a consistent Latinized ordinal form.

Related Ordinal Numbers: decal (10th), duodecal (20th), triodecal (30th), quadecal (40th), quintodecal (50th), sextodecal (60th), septodecal (70th), octodecal (80th), nonodecal (90th)
Cardinal References: deco (10), duodeco (20), triodeco (30), quadeco (40), quintodeco (50), sextodeco (60), septodeco (70), octodeco (80), nonodeco (90)
Examples:
• "The community honored his septodecal birthday as a significant life milestone."
• "The study examined economic trends over the last (ultime) septodecal cycle."
• "Adjust the septodecal parameter to configure the system for a seventy-year (septodeco-ane) simulation."
• "This edition marks the septodecal volume in the publication's history."
• "The statute mandates a septodecal review for all foundational policies."
septodecal by Dmitrio December 26, 2025

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026
Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020
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