• appellation • Part of Speech: Noun, proper Meaning: A name,
title, or other designation by which someone or something is
called or identified. Notes: Today's Good Word often trips up
spellers because of its double double letters: two Ps and two
Ls. In this respect it is like accommodate and millennium. Be
careful. Its adjective is appellative "related to names or
naming", as an appellative process. This word is related to
appeal and, consequently, to appellate as in appellate court in
ways discussed in today's Word History. In Play: Today's word is
better than simple name when you wish to point out that a name
carries some special meaning: "I am afraid that Prudence is a
captive of her own appellation, never driving over 50 miles per
hour." This term is often applied to product names, especially
wines: "Well, this wine may contain 'Pinot noir' in its
appellation, but if you drink it, you may pinot more." However,
it is never, never applied to mountains in the eastern United
States (as sometimes occurs in co