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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Sui generis is a Latin expression, literally meaning of its own kind/genus or unique in its characteristics. The expression was created to indicate an idea, an entity or a reality that cannot be included in a wider concept. In the structure "genusspecies" a species that heads its own genus is sui generis. The word is pronounced SOO-eye jen-ER-ihs. A modern day equivalent is the phrase genre-defying.

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