When I was over yonder, I read in one the papers Lecturette.
A lecturette about how you could improve yourselve to become the real succes you ever wanted to be.

When looking through Google I saw the word quite a few times, but not in dictionaries. One Look only referred to Merriam-Webster, but lately M-W is assaulting me with flickering advertisements, so I shun the place.

Is this adding of -ette a growing fashion for diminutives? I know kichenette an luncheonette and snack-o-rette. Does this 'lecturette' seem allright with you? Or is it a peculiar word?

EEEuuwwww. Gag. Sugar overload! Too cutesy.

Good! Wise Online Woman. You are the first to react to this miniinquierette. Thanks for your contribution. You will have the results as soon as possible.

Main Entry: lec·tur·ette
Pronunciation: |lekchschwa|ret, -ksh-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): -s
: a short lecture

[Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002]

-ksh-?
I would not have expected any other definition, but this makes it official. Thank you tsuwm. Altough it misses an opinion and your signature it will fully count.

Damn.

If a lecturette is, in fact, a short lecture, then wouldn't a majorette be a short major?

Or is a majorette really a minorette?

Strange language that English French.

"DESTROY NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF KNOWN HOUSEHOLD PESTS WITH PRE-SLICED, RUSTPROOF, EASY-TO-HANDLE, LOW CALORIE SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL EMPEROR STRINGETTES, FREE FROM ARTIFICIAL COLORING, AS USED IN HOSPITALS!"

and from AskWiki:

No answer found for the question "what's a stringette?"

sheesheesh

This is where they come from:
link 1

[S: For what? W: "A MILLION HOUSEHOLD USES!" S: Such as? W: Uhmm...Tying up very small parcels, attatching notes to pigeons' legs, uh, destroying household pests... S: Destroying household pests?! How? W: Well, if they're bigger than a mouse, you can strangle them with it, and if they're smaller than, you flog them to death with it! S: Well *surely*!.... W: "DESTROY NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF KNOWN HOUSEHOLD PESTS WITH PRE-SLICED, RUSTPROOF, EASY-TO-HANDLE, LOW CALORIE SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL EMPEROR STRINGETTES, FREE FROM ARTIFICIAL COLORING, AS USED IN HOSPITALS!" and so on and so on ]

English---stringettes, all about Monty Python:
link 2

French---stringettes - Google pages are mostly about an undergarment called 'string'. Maybe it's them who have taken the English word 'string'and added the -ettes.(not related to Monty Python) The French dictionary Trésor does not have the word however. It would be in the French Urban dictionary if there were one.

When you google 'stringette' ,you get entries about horse races
and horses
link 3

oef! This is the whole lecturette.

Groupies for the drum major.

Mon surnom est minorette parce que je me suis fait baptisee mineuve.


Lauriane, Grenogle

Song of Baptism:
Huguette p'tite

bill ( minor league) gannon