exonorm
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "And for Fijian - to maintain the Old High Fijian exonorm, which has been the variety most frequently seen in print and uttered by officialdom, or to build on the indigenous Standard Fijian."
- "If native or primary anglophones living in Israel travel to an English-speaking country or if they are talking or writing to anglophones unfamiliar with English as used here, they must revert to an exonorm, something which is not always easy."
- "The advantage in being able to do this lies in the creation and maintenance of an endonorm rather than blindly insisting on an exonorm."
Etymology
From exo- + norm.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: exo