Tangent: agile, waterfall, and the rest are just individual "methods", not "methodologies". Or at least they should be. Unfortunately it seems our living langu

Tangent: agile, waterfall, and the rest are just individual "methods", not "methodologies". Or at least they should be. Unfortunately it seems our living language is allowing this "-ology" to stop meaning "study of" or "branch of knowledge" and start meaning, well, nothing. If agile, waterfall, etc. are "methodologies", then what do you call the actual research and study of the methods themselves? "Methodologyology"? I get it. I like saying big words instead of small words for effect as much as the next person. For some reason, this one in particular really gets me. I don't know why.