When I use a word . . . Utopias, dystopias, cacotopias, agathotopias, kalotopias, and the NHS

UtopiasThe word “utopia” was coined by Sir Thomas More as the title of the 1516 novel that we now call Utopia, but whose original Latin title was Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, which I translate as A truly golden little book, no less educational than entertaining, about the best way of running a republic and the newly discovered island of Utopia. His book was not the first of its kind, but he gave it a name that had not previously been coined.More fashioned his title from two Greek words, οὔ, not, and τόπος, a place, and Latinised his coinage by adding the suffix –ia. There are two words for “not” in Greek, οὔ and μή. As Liddell and Scott’s Greek–English Lexicon puts it, “οὔ [is] the negative of fact and statement, as μή of will and thought; οὔ…
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