Beware: This word is so satisfying to say, you’ll be silently mouthing it all day. If you’re looking at this word and thinking “What?!”, then just know it’s pronounced “obb-see-kwee-uss” and it means when someone is so nice and helpful that it seems fake. Supposedly derived from Scottish or Irish, kerfuffle is pronounced “curr-fuff-ull” and describes when someone’s making a fuss out of something that doesn’t require it. This fantastic word is essentially the opposite of ‘fabulous’ and means ‘to feel ill after eating or drinking too much’, which pretty much describes how I live my life. Basically, it means ‘the day after today’, and you can say ‘on the morrow’ to leave your friends impressed/confused. (Its very important to me that I have my own unique voice in my writing not only in style, but in vocabulary as well.) I stumbled upon this list along my. Morrowįrom the old English/German ‘morgen’ and Middle English ‘morwe’ comes the brilliant ‘morrow’, a predecessor of ‘tomorrow’ (which is literally “to the morrow”). Basically, it means the day after today, and you can say on the. Nevertheless, we call it our word of the day because lexical unit of the day sounds a little dry. Though usually a single word, this still means it can be two words or more, a compound or a phrase, or perhaps an acronym or abbreviation. You say it “oss-ten-tay-shuss” and it means when something or someone is deliberately showing off, like driving a stupidly expensive car or wearing a horrible designer coat just because it’s designer. Word of the Day: incipient This word has appeared in 30 articles on in the past year. English is a linguistic Frankenstein and prone to words even great ones being. The word of the day is always a main entry. OK, so this one might still be used sometimes, but most people don’t know what it means (or how to spell it, shame on them). Pronounced “hentz-forrth”, it’s a fancier way of saying “from this point on”. The table shows the type counts (number of unique words) and the type-token ratio of the days input for these three hypothetical children. Pronounced “fah-see-shuss”, this word describes when someone doesn’t take a situation seriously, which ironically is very serious indeed. That word may come from the German schnelle geister, meaning quick spirits. It might be connected to snallygaster, a mythical creature from rural Maryland that’s half reptile and half bird and preys on children and poultry. For New Years Day, I made a word cloud art with her favourite people in the shape of a heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() Such a shame! Here are seven words I think we should start using again immediately. The word dates back to the late 1840s and was used in the South to refer derogatorily to a politician. In fact, the two major English dialects – British and American – often borrow words from each other, at the expense of great words which then fall into disuse. Rarely has a language been such a linguistic Frankenstein as English – it has stolen words from countless other languages and repeatedly reinvented itself to sound more sophisticated (with French-style spelling and pronunciation in the 1700s, for example).
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