Monday, January 24, 2005

Kakistocracy

kakistocracy

SYLLABICATION: kak·is·toc·ra·cy

PRONUNCIATION: kk-stkr-s, käk-

NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. kak·is·toc·ra·cies

Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.

ETYMOLOGY: Greek kakistos, worst, superlative of kakos, bad; see caco– + –cracy.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You've butchered the phonetic spelling of this word. Although two of the symbols are off due to the lousy version of Word I have, it goes more or less like this:

kækıstαkrısı׃

Up Yours,
Don Goyo

9:59 AM  

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