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I encountered in spellingbee list
word "holophrastic" defined as "expressing a complex of ideas in a single word". T think the example the Scripps-Howard people gave is very dubious:
"Holophrastic utternaces are one of the first stages in childrens's acquistion of speech."

I think it's the definition of holophrastic that is at fault, Dr. Bill, because holophrastic is generally used in linguistics to describe the way children just over a year old use single words like "Gone" rather than complete sentences.

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