Saturday

Ptochocracy

I love this word, and what it means: a government by beggars. From the Greek word ptochos, a beggar, and kratos, power.

Pleasing to pronounce, too. Tow-kok-ra-see


6 comments:

Anonymous said...

This word was a $16,000 question on who wants to be a millionaire!

Susie Kelly said...

Did the contestant get it right?

Anonymous said...

Yes, but he used all his lifelines and ended up going with his phone-a-friends guess.

Susie Kelly said...

How much did he finally win?

Mike said...

$16k

Susie Kelly said...

Better than $0.