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Miscellany vs Miscellaneum - What's the difference?

miscellany | miscellaneum |

As nouns the difference between miscellany and miscellaneum

is that miscellany is miscellaneous items while miscellaneum is a miscellany.

miscellany

English

Noun

(miscellanies)
  • Miscellaneous items
  • A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    miscellaneum

    English

    Noun

    (miscellanea)
  • (rare, chiefly, archaic) A miscellany.
  • * 1652': Samuel Hartlib, Cornu Copia?'':?A '''Miscellaneum of lucriferous and most fructiferous Experiments, Observations, and Discoveries, immethodically distributed?;?to be really demonstrated and communicated in all Sincerity. , book title (Harleian Miscellany, volume VI, pages 27–36)
    • Cornu Copia ?:?A Miscellaneum of lucriferous and most fructiferous Experiments, Observations, and Discoveries, immethodically distributed?;?to be really demonstrated and communicated in all Sincerity.
  • * 1851 : The Musical World , page 129
    • The second part was devoted to a miscellaneum .?It commenced with a reference to the interdiction of stage entertainment in the time of the Protectorate.
  • * 1999 : Housman Society, Housman Society Journal , page 87 (Turner & Devereux)
    • Aside from those cited in this miscellaneum , other copies are to be seen at Bryn Mawr (inscribed by Kennerley to R. W. Ellis); Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; and private collection 1.
  • * 2004 : Shlomo Berger, Michael Brocke, and Irene E Zwiep, Zutot 2003 , page 28] ([http://www.springer.com/philosophy/history+of+philosophy/book/978-1-4020-2627-0?cm_mmc=Google-_-Book%20Search-_-Springer-_-0 Springer; ISBN 1402026277, 978-1402026270)
    • In this miscellaneum I would like to describe a medieval translation of Keter Malkhut which, to the best of my knowledge, has not been noted anywhere in scholarly literature.

    Usage notes

    * (term) is almost universally treated as a plurale tantum in English, consequently, the singular form (term) is liable to cause confusion: *
  • As (term) means, in the usual sense, “a miscellaneous collection of different things”, a single (term) is logically impossible because variety and diversity (in their usual senses) are attributes of groups of things, not of individual things; for example, a populace can be varied and diverse, but a person cannot be various or diverse.
    • *
  • (term) will usually be taken to mean “a single miscellany”, not several assortments.
    • * In common usage, miscellany is over seven hundred times more common than (term) GoogleFight]: [http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=miscellany&word2=miscellaneum miscellany vs.'' miscellaneum], whereas miscellanea is around six hundred times more common than (term)GoogleFight: [http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=miscellanea&word2=miscellaneum miscellanea ''vs.'' miscellaneum]; ''in re'' plural forms, the Anglicised (term) is well over a hundred thousand times rarer than (term)GoogleFight: [http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=miscellanea&word2=miscellaneums miscellanea ''vs.'' miscellaneums] and over eighteen thousand times rarer than (miscellanies)GoogleFight: [http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=miscellanies&word2=miscellaneums miscellanies ''vs. miscellaneums.

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