The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
domingo, 5 de junio de 2011
Word Of The Day
pomaceous\poh-MAY-shus\
DEFINITION:adjective
1: of or relating to apples
2: resembling a pome
EXAMPLES
The back porch held a sweet, pomaceous aroma, and immediately Glen knew that his mother had baked an apple pie for dessert.
"This Festival is devoted to the mysteries of Plant Reproduction, especially that of those wondrous trees, the Angiosperms, with special emphasis upon the Drupes and the Pomaceous Fruits." -- From Margaret Atwood's 2009 novel The Year of the Flood
DID YOU KNOW?
"Pomaceous" was first planted in the English language by physician Edward Baynard when, in 1706, he advised, "Apples and pomaceous Juices, are the greatest Pectorals." ("Pectoral" is now a rarely used word for a food that helps digestion.) Since then, "pomaceous" has mainly been sown by botanists and poets. The word, which is ultimately derived from Late Latin "pomum" (meaning "apple"), was originally used of apples and things relating to apples, but later it was also applied to things that look like pears. (Pears, like apples, belong to the pome family.)
DEFINITION:adjective
1: of or relating to apples
2: resembling a pome
EXAMPLES
The back porch held a sweet, pomaceous aroma, and immediately Glen knew that his mother had baked an apple pie for dessert.
"This Festival is devoted to the mysteries of Plant Reproduction, especially that of those wondrous trees, the Angiosperms, with special emphasis upon the Drupes and the Pomaceous Fruits." -- From Margaret Atwood's 2009 novel The Year of the Flood
DID YOU KNOW?
"Pomaceous" was first planted in the English language by physician Edward Baynard when, in 1706, he advised, "Apples and pomaceous Juices, are the greatest Pectorals." ("Pectoral" is now a rarely used word for a food that helps digestion.) Since then, "pomaceous" has mainly been sown by botanists and poets. The word, which is ultimately derived from Late Latin "pomum" (meaning "apple"), was originally used of apples and things relating to apples, but later it was also applied to things that look like pears. (Pears, like apples, belong to the pome family.)
SUNDAY'S TOP 5: JUNE 5, 2011
MY TOP 5 ALBUMS FOR THIS SUNDAY ARE:
1. THE BRIGHTS - A TRIVIAL PURSUIT
2. SELEBRITIES - DELUSIONS
3. MILES KANE - COLOUR OF THE TRAP
4. HEATHER NOVA - 300 DAYS AT SEA
5. ARCTIC MONKEYS - SUCK IT AND SEE
viernes, 6 de mayo de 2011
Word of the Day
gesundheit\guh-ZOONT-hyte
DEFINITION interjection
-- used to wish good health especially to one who has just sneezed
EXAMPLES
"Gesundheit!" said the man on the bicycle as he passed a lady on the sidewalk who had sneezed.
"The air was filled with 'God Bless You' and 'Gesundheit' as our Tuesday study group got together the other day…. We were reading together accompanied by sneezes, but it helped us ignore our stuffed-up heads." -- From an article by Sirkka Holm in the Finnish American Reporter, December 2010
DID YOU KNOW?
When English speakers hear "achoo," they usually respond with either "gesundheit" or "God bless you." "Gesundheit" was borrowed from German, where it literally means "health"; it was formed by a combination of "gesund" ("healthy") and "-heit" ("-hood"). Wishing a person good health when they sneezed was traditionally believed to forestall the illness that a sneeze often portends. "God bless you" had a similar purpose, albeit with more divine weight to the well-wishing. It was once believed that the soul could exit the body during a sneeze, causing ill health, so folks said "God bless you" to ward off this danger. "Gesundheit," at one time, also served as a toast when drinking (much like its English counterpart, "to your health"), but this usage is now mostly obsolete.
DEFINITION interjection
-- used to wish good health especially to one who has just sneezed
EXAMPLES
"Gesundheit!" said the man on the bicycle as he passed a lady on the sidewalk who had sneezed.
"The air was filled with 'God Bless You' and 'Gesundheit' as our Tuesday study group got together the other day…. We were reading together accompanied by sneezes, but it helped us ignore our stuffed-up heads." -- From an article by Sirkka Holm in the Finnish American Reporter, December 2010
DID YOU KNOW?
When English speakers hear "achoo," they usually respond with either "gesundheit" or "God bless you." "Gesundheit" was borrowed from German, where it literally means "health"; it was formed by a combination of "gesund" ("healthy") and "-heit" ("-hood"). Wishing a person good health when they sneezed was traditionally believed to forestall the illness that a sneeze often portends. "God bless you" had a similar purpose, albeit with more divine weight to the well-wishing. It was once believed that the soul could exit the body during a sneeze, causing ill health, so folks said "God bless you" to ward off this danger. "Gesundheit," at one time, also served as a toast when drinking (much like its English counterpart, "to your health"), but this usage is now mostly obsolete.
jueves, 5 de mayo de 2011
Born On This Day: Ian McCulloch, May 5, 1959
The lead singer for Echo and the Bunnymen celebrates his birthday today. Ian was born in Liverpool, England.
martes, 3 de mayo de 2011
Phrase of the Day
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940)
Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940)
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