zoomanity

Cirque Du Soleil may be taking the high road with their spelling (zumanity) of this metaplastic word but anyone who has attended a rock festival, visited a major theme park or participated in any gathering of people larger than a family picnic should understand why there is more zoo than human in our spelling. Proper usage: "From the main stage at Lollapalooza the roiling sea of zoomanity stretching to the horizon seemed to have spontaneously emerged from the primordial ooze of the mud pit." (Originally posted September 17, 2003)