It's the word of the day for December 1st.

Today's word is pseudonym, spelled P-S-E-U-D-O-N-Y-M.

Sudonym is a noun.

It's a name that someone such as a writer uses instead of their real name.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Den of Geek by Don K.

Edgar Wright, the filmmaker and genre specialist, who has given the word modern gems like Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Baby Driver,

estimates he was around 13 years old when he read the Bachman books,

a collection of four novels that Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman

during the early years of his career.

The word pseudonym has its origins in the Greek adjective pseudonymous, which means

bearing a false name. French speakers adopted the Greek word as the noun pseudonym, and English

speakers later modified the French word into pseudonym. Many celebrated authors have used pseudonyms.

Samuel Clemens wrote under the pseudonym Mark Twain. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson assumed the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, and Marianne Evans

used George Elliott as her pseudonym. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokoloski.

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