“Wreckage-O-Rama” etymology
Wreckage , wreck·age , noun 1. the act of wrecking : the state of being wrecked.
2. a: something that has been wrecked. b: broken and disordered parts or material from something wrecked.
Date: 1837
[ from Merriam-Webster ]
“O-Rama” , suffix , 1. from Horama; Greek for `sight’, coming from horan which means `to see.’ The suffix orama as in panorama, diorama and cyclorama comes from the Greek.
a: Bill Bryson, in Made in America, explains that Norman Bel Geddes’s
Futurama exhibit at the New York World’s Fair of 1939 is what inspired
later compounds using the variation “o-rama”.
Date: 400 BC
[ from Melanie & Mike say... Take our word for it ]
“Wreckage-O-Rama”, noun; verb , n, 1. A broken vision. v, 2. The act of seeing the maelstrom.
Date: 2001
