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What is the word meaning someone who knows a little about alot but not an expert in any? Websters added this word maybe ten years ago. Brenda


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Do you mean dilettante?  Or is it something more recently coined and cutesy?


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"dilettante" (the word, not the screen name) is older than 10 years.


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>>>>> What is the word meaning someone who knows a little about alot but not an expert in any?

"Journalist"?


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Ha! I shared an office with an just-slightly-ex Wall Street Journal reporter twenty odd years ago, and that's when I grasped the true and utter sense of "a mile wide and an inch deep"!


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