diglot (DY-glot) adjectiveBilingual.nounA bilingual book, person, etc.[From Greek diglottos, from di- (two) + -glottos, from glossa,(tongue, language).]"On their traditional, and legally defined, ground, he (Bagster)challenged the privileged presses directly, with pocket editions ofthe New Testament, while his diglot editions of the Bible, inEnglishwith accompanying German, French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese,wereaimed partly at the cosmopolitan immigrant market."David McKitterick; A History of Cambridge University Press: Vol 2;Cambridge University Press; Aug 27, 1998."The oldest inscriptions in a Berber language - two diglotinscriptionsfound at Dugga in Tunisia - are written in Tifinag."George L. Campbell; Concise Compendium of the World‘s Languages;Routledge; 1995.A diglot isn‘t someone who digs a lot. Nor is it one who digs much oronewho digs a parcel of land. Rather, the term refers to one who isbilingualor speaks two languages. And a diglot book is one that has side-by-sidetext in two languages, on the same or opposite page.From digging lots to digging languages -- it‘s quite a far reach. Butthat‘s what happens sometimes when we try to guess the meaning ofwords.We tend to parse them among familiar boundaries, leading to unusualresults.We‘ve collected five misleading words for this week‘s AWAD -- wordsthataren‘t what they appear to be. Maybe we should call them politicianwords.-Anu Garg
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