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U is for Ultracrepidarian
Sutor, ne ultra crepidam is a Latin expression meaning literally “Shoemaker, not beyond the shoe”, used to warn individuals not to pass judgment beyond their expertise. The expression led to the term ultracrepidarianism, which is the giving of opinions and advice on matters outside of one’s knowledge.
Ultracrepidarianism is the behavior of giving of opinions and advice on matters outside of one’s knowledge
The term ultracrepidarian was first publicly recorded in 1819 by the English essayist William Hazlitt in an open Letter to William Gifford, the editor of the Quarterly Review: “You have been well called an Ultra-Crepidarian critic.” It was used again four years later in 1823, in the satire by Hazlitt’s friend Leigh Hunt, Ultra-Crepidarius: a Satire on William Gifford. Occasionally the word “ultracrepidarianism” was used later. ~ Wikipedia
