Did you perhaps mean one of these? Lamaism, onanism
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madmouth It would rhyme with onanism that way, which the man surely inspires in college students across the land. May 6, 2009
chained_bear It's an awkward construction, to be sure. I'd think "Obamism" would work better, but who am I to say. May 5, 2009
pterodactyl I saw this word in a newspaper article today. I presume it means something like "the political philosophy of Barack Obama", but it's not the meaning that interests me, it's the construction of the word.
Adding the suffix "ism" to a word that ends in a vowel, such as "Obama", seems intuitively wrong. I'd definitely prefer "Obamism", or possibly "Obamatism". I'm not sure why I feel this way, but I suspect it has something to do with the way English handles adjacent vowels.
How do you guys feel about it? May 5, 2009