# Where did you learn that word?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-learn-that-word/406733>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 4, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-learn-that-word/406733 "2007-06-04T18:22:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-learn-that-word/406733/61 "2007-06-11T20:03:44Z")

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[QUOTE=Aspidistra]  
Now for bonus points - who knows what she was (mis-)quoting?

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Beatrix Potter’s Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (I think - definitely Beatrix Potter). That’s where I learned the word soporific.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-learn-that-word/406733/62 "2007-06-12T05:31:20Z")

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[QUOTE=Aspidistra]  
I learned the word ‘copacetic’ on [this board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8396701&postcount=3)  
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“Copacetic” appears not once, but twice in James Ellroy’s _The Black Dahlia._ Somehow, I found that odd.

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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-learn-that-word/406733/63 "2007-06-12T06:12:27Z")

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[QUOTE=ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]  
Beatrix Potter’s Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (I think - definitely Beatrix Potter). That’s where I learned the word soporific.  
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Ka-ching! 🆒

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-learn-that-word/406733/64 "2007-06-12T15:59:16Z")

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[QUOTE=Chronos]

…I only learned the word “Apotheosis” a few years ago, from the title of a Babylon 5 episode. It’s the Greek equivalent of “deification”…  
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Quite so. Behold Brumidi’s “The Apotheosis of Washington,” from the inner dome of the U.S. Capitol, above the rotunda: [http://z.about.com/d/godc/1/0/E/7/apotheosis.jpg](http://z.about.com/d/godc/1/0/E/7/apotheosis.jpg)

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