These nutjobs I work for often claim to be doctors of holistic medicine. Except a lot of them instead say they're doctors of "wholistic" medicine. Get it? Because they're dealing with the whole body, so they're not just holistic doctors. They're wholistic doctors.
Thanks to Merriam & Webster, here's the definition of "holistic":
relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts <holistic medicine attempts to treat both the mind and the body>
Riiiight. So it's really super clever to say "wholistic" when "holistic" is the real word that means the same word and is pronounced the same way.
Although, to be fair, they are nutjobs, and there are far more entertaining things I should be making fun of them about.
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