The word of the day is.... "Specificity"

[SoCalDem]

Not :
Spe-ci-fity

or
spe-ci-cifty

or
spe-fi-city

or
spes-ifi-ciy

All day long I have seen at least 5 people on MSNBC using (or trying to) this word, and failing miserably.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/specificity

specificity
spec·i·fic·i·ty?......... ?spes-uh-fis-i-tee
?noun
1.
the quality or state of being specific.
2.
Biochemistry, Pharmacology . the selective attachment or influence of one substance on another, as an antibiotic and its target organism or an antibody and its specific antigen.


Example Sentences

But the text studiously avoids specificity, except to point out where some country or other is doing rather better.

And yet there is a dignity in its specificity and even some innovation in its approach to capitalization and sentence form.

The specificity of the accusation made it seem more believable.

[niyad]

1. it is annoying to listen to highly paid news readers who cannot actually speak.