http://www.dailywritingtips.com/elision-or-tmesis/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:41:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/elision-or-tmesis/comment-page-1/#comment-214064 Tony Hearn Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:29:24 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=4008#comment-214064 I once knew a very Anglophile Dutchman. He reckoned that tmesis in English could not be matched in any other language. His favourite was an old soldier's talking about the campaign in 'Meso-bloody-potamia'! I once knew a very Anglophile Dutchman. He reckoned that tmesis in English could not be matched in any other language. His favourite was an old soldier’s talking about the campaign in ‘Meso-bloody-potamia’!

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