Lesson On "Psephology"

 Have you heard this word before?

There was the day way back in 1977 when parliament became a 'classroom' and Mr Lee Kuan Yew taught this new word to all who were present:

"In case the press gets me wrong, it is psephology and not psychology. I have a dictionary here. It is the science of how people vote. Just in case they dispute my definition, I have brought the Shorter Oxford Dictionary and it is in the addenda. It is not in the body of the dictionary itself. It is a new science. Psephology - the study of trends in voting or elections. From Greek psephos (pebble) because when the Greek voted he threw a pebble."