Tag: etymology
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December 18, 2007 02:48 PM EST --
I was downtown this morning, and noticed a little joint I hadn't seen before. "New York" pizza, and I still have a bit of the New Yawker in me. I went in and - even tho it was . . . more
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June 01, 2006 05:30 PM EDT --
Today's Word of the Day is actually two words, effervesce and effervescent, but the fun is in the two sentences which give examples of usage. Why, you ask? Because it really happened!
Enjoy!
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December 11, 2007 11:23 AM EST --
I have a page-a-day calendar, compliments of one of my children from last Christmas. Each day I read the little blurb on it in hopes of enlightening myself with something of value at least. Perhaps something . . . more
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April 27, 2007 02:08 AM EDT --
There's smart and then there's me. I'm smart--sort of.
I don't know the right thing to say at a party. I don't do social situations. I couldn't read a social cue to save my life, . . . more
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August 02, 2006 10:02 PM EDT --
When I first moved to the city, it took me a while to get my bearings and just come to grips with all the abundance of opportunities. I took an easy job at the airport, so I'd have lots of time . . . more
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March 28, 2007 10:42 AM EDT --
I just read Yvette Francino's February article about the word grok: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976912787
It got me thinking about common words & phrases that English . . . more
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September 02, 2007 02:20 PM EDT --
This article was planned—and it was supposed to have that exact title—many months ago, when a Gather member, Ann Weaver Hart, published one of hers in which she mentioned the word Caesar, and . . . more
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May 23, 2007 02:37 PM EDT --
So here's a random question for food lovers and words & language lovers!
I was just looking over recipes for artichoke dip (I'm open for suggestions!) and several of them call for . . . more
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May 06, 2008 10:07 AM EDT --
new pathways in the study of word origins
AN ANALYTIC DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY, An Introduction by Anatoly Liberman. U. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, www.upress.umn.edu, presspr@umn.edu. . . . more
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September 05, 2007 08:02 AM EDT --
I've decided to start a new series of articles that I will do my best to keep up with, as inspiration allows.
What you may ask has led me to the etymology (the study and history of words) of . . . more
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January 10, 2007 06:57 AM EST --
I shall return from the moribund with a brief note on word usage, if only to prove that I still live. For whatever reason, I have been asked three times in the last few weeks whether the . . . more
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May 12, 2006 01:04 PM EDT --
Notice: Please welcome the eminently qualified Gatherite, Jana Bouma, who has an MA and PhD in English, as my co-editor. Like me, her stock in trade is words, and she has many wonderful and useful ones . . . more
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June 25, 2006 04:35 PM EDT --
Your Word of the Day editor is going to take a break from the daily entries for the summer.
In the meantime, please feel free to enter your own favorite words, in a format similar to those already posted. . . . more
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April 28, 2007 07:34 PM EDT --
Having bragged that I can name 20 English cognates of the Latin verb that means "to send" (i.e. mitteo, mittere, missi, missum) I feel obligated to do so. If you know any I missed, transmit me . . . more
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December 29, 2005 09:13 AM EST --
Join the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries each week as they investigate the mysterious origins of our everyday language.
CURFEW
A curfew was originally a medieval regulation . . . more
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April 28, 2006 11:24 AM EDT --
MALAPROP
"She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile" and "He is the very pineapple of politeness" are two of the absurd pronouncements from Mrs. Malaprop . . . more
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May 25, 2006 03:05 PM EDT --
Have you checked on the Word of the Day lately?
If so, you may have noticed that today's word is a three-fer: three related words, submitted to extend your writing vocabulary. Some of the illustrative . . . more
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August 29, 2006 06:04 PM EDT --
per·spi·ca·ci·ty
noun
Of acute mental vision or discernment.
Etymology: Latin perspicac-, perspicax, from perspicere
Sentence: Employing her usual perspicacity, Florence quickly . . . more
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March 26, 2007 01:27 PM EDT --
BRAND NEW
Nowadays, the word brand is probably most often heard with the meaning “a trademark or distinctive name identifying a product or a manufacturer,” but it can be traced all . . . more
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April 20, 2007 12:06 PM EDT --
AX
Ax, a common nonstandard variant of ask, is often identified as an especially salient feature of African American Vernacular English. While it is true that the form is frequent in the . . . more
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