Originally Posted By: Jackie
ology is, like, a word? Like, not as such, afaik. The quote has 'Ologies. The capitalization adds to my puzzlement--that makes it seem as though it's the title of something. [shrug]


yes, well ology has a OLi of twenty-seven(27!)*, and can be found in OED[online] and W3. but you're probly right - it's not really a word. wink

I'd venture a guess that many of the capitalized instances came early in the word's informal history [see Dickens quote above] to distinguish it from the suffix form, -ology.

here's another:
"The days of the ‘ologies’ (be they zoo- or entomo-) were giving way to a single science, and he had not noticed."
- Daily Telegraph 26 May, 1999

*from a closer inspection, it looks like two(2!) of these are really the suffix only.