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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--garbology This week's theme: uncommon words with common suffixes or prefixes. garbology (gar-BOL-uh-jee) noun The study of a society or culture by examining what it discards. [From garbage (which was originally the word for offal from fowls) + -logy (study).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Though garbology remains a relatively unplumbed subject, several colleges and universities offer courses that look at what people throw away and how it reflects who they are." Tina Kelley; Class at N.Y.U. Looks for Deeper Meaning at Fresh Kills; The New York Times; Mar 23, 2000. X-Bonus If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. -Norman R. Augustine, industrialist (1935- )

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