Why is the term monograph not used more?

[Dr Dave]

It seems like a nice word.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

mon·o·graph [mon-uh-graf, -grahf]

noun

1. a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.

2. a highly detailed and thoroughly documented study or paper written about a limited area of a subject or field of inquiry: scholarly monographs on medieval pigments.

3. an account of a single thing or class of things, as of a species of organism.

verb (used with object)

4. to write a monograph about.

Origin:
1815–25; mono- + -graph

Oh.

 

[CaptainWacky]

What about the word slektwag?

 

[whisky]

Sounds too much like mamogram, and noone likes to think about those

 

[Dr Dave]

If it's good enough for Sherlock Holmes, it's good enough.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Slektwag spelled backwards is Gawtkels!

 

[Dr Dave]

Great...

 

[CaptainWacky]

Most singular indeed.