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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, left, listens as President Bush speaks with the G7 Finance Ministers in the Rose Garden of the White House, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President Bush emerged from a meeting with foreign financial officials on Saturday and pledged a global response to the credit crisis that will lead toward a "path of stability and long-term growth."


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hypocorism
\hye-PAH-kuh-riz-um\
noun

a pet name



the use of pet names

Example Sentence
Darren started calling Sheila by her hypocorism, “Bubbles,” when they were juniors in high school. In Late Latin and Greek, the words “hypocorisma” and “hypokorisma” had the same meaning as “hypocorism” does in English today. They in turn evolved from the Greek verb “hypokorizesthai” (“to call by pet names”), which itself comes from “korizesthai” (“to caress”). “Hypocorism” joined the English language in the mid-19th century and was once briefly a buzzword among linguists, who used it rather broadly to mean “adult baby talk,” that is, the altered speech adults use when supposedly imitating babies. Once the baby talk issue faded, “hypocorism” settled back into being just a fancy word for a pet name. Pet names can be diminutives like our “Johnny” for “John,” endearing terms such as “honey-bunch,” or, yes, names from baby talk, like “Nana” for “Grandma.”

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My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian Author

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