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 11. A word has a semantic prosody. I am doubly fascinated: by the phemomon itself, and by the fact that the linguist has reached for the word prosody to describe it. This means the word as it is used most frequently. The word budge, for example, 

 

I realize that this is the key to Pound’s definition of logopoeia. The words habitual uses. A scientific word used in a non-scientific context. I could use the word budge, usually used negatively, in a positive context: “I budged 5 kilometers today.”