Now I remember
By BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (45487)
St. Catharines, Ontario
July 21, 2021 8:08am CST
What it was that I wanted to post about but forgot. Turns out it wasn't all that all encompassing as I made out. It was about a new word I learned: listicle.
LISTICLE
I'd never come across this word before and thought it was just something made up for the comic striip. But I looked it up (online) and found out that it was a real word.
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listicle
/'l?st?k(?)l/
noun
1. a piece of writing or other content presented wholly or partly in the form of a list: "a recent BuzzFeed listicle called ‘21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity’ has attracted more than 13 million views"
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Have you run across this word before?
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11 responses
@Fleura (29129)
• United Kingdom
21 Jul 21
Not come across that before, but certainly that form of writing seems to be a very popular way to attract readers to websites. There are innumerable articles that pop up with titles like 'Twelve celebrities you won't recognise now' or 'Ten things to never eat if you want to lose weight'.
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@Butterfingers (66585)
• India
21 Jul 21
Sad. There are still so many English words that I know of it's a very difficult language. Don't know if they create new words daily 
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@BarBaraPrz (45487)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
21 Jul 21
I think they do, or come up with new meanings for old words.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
21 Jul 21
@BarBaraPrz I was thinking that it was a neologism, because WE like them, I have learned that it was a "portmanteau word" today.
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@BarBaraPrz (45487)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Jul 21
Yes, it's definitely a made-up word.
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@BarBaraPrz (45487)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Jul 21
@LadyDuck I suppose I would have figured it out eventually, but I kept thinking "popsicle" and I knew that wasn't right.
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
22 Jul 21
@BarBaraPrz I wonder how many people would understand what it means.
@BarBaraPrz (45487)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
21 Jul 21
Yeah, I first came across it in a comic strip last week. I hope I never come across it again. 
@BarBaraPrz (45487)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
23 Jul 21
I guess it happens to all of us at one time or another.
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
22 Jul 21
I have seen it once or twice. My funny imagination makes me "see" icicles when that word comes up.
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@Marilynda1225 (79730)
• United States
21 Jul 21
That's a new word for me too.
I guess my ongoing "to do" list is a listicle
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@JESSY3236 (18923)
• United States
27 Jul 21
Yeah I have. On Textbroker. Some articles are listicles.
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@YuleimaVzla (1505)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
22 Jul 21
I am a lawyer and I have had to read many things, I have never come across that word, but just out of curiosity I will look for it as well. Thank you for opening us up to a sea of new knowledge.
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