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A.Word.A.Day--vox barbara vox barbara (VOKS BAHR-buhr-uh) noun A barbarous word or phrase, especially applied to supposedly neo-Latin terms that are neither Latin nor Greek. [From Latin vox barbara (foreign word or speech).] "To get at what I do mean I need an Anglicism (not, be it noted, a Briticism, which word is an Americanism and a vox barbara to boot)." Kingsley Amis, Amis on English, The Guardian (UK), Mar 10, 1997. This week's theme: words about words. X-Bonus I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. -Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (1867-1959)

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