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    word for the day, Monday May16th

    CATARACT: A large waterfall; a medical condition of the eye.

    So how did this word end up with two completely different meanings?

    It originated with the Greek word kataraktes, meaning something that is rushing or swooping down which is a derivative of katarassein, from kata– “down” plus arassein “strike. There are several words whose first element comes from kata–, including cataclysm, catapult, catalepsy, catalogue and catastrophe.

    The Greek word applied to a number of things that rush down, including a swooping bird and a waterfall. It was transferred into Latin in the form cataracta and in that language could refer to a waterfall, a flood-gate or a portcullis (the vertical grated gate to a castle which could be dropped to bar entrance).

    But than from about the middle of the sixteenth century, cataract also began to be applied to the medical condition in which the lens of the eye goes progressively opaque. It seems that doctors were using the word as a simile for something that stopped light entering the eye. An older expression for the same condition was web in the eye, so the name was most likely derived from the barred structure of the portcullis or window grating, rather than as a physical barrier. It sounds improbable, but nobody seems to have come up with a better explanation.


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    word for the day, May 17th

    DACTYLONOMY (dack-till-ON-oh-mee) n.: The art of counting on the fingers. . The word is from Greek daktulos, finger, plus –nomia, related to nomos, law, that we use to mark some specified area of knowledge.

    “When the coach discovered his players could only count to 10 when in uniform, he insisted they enroll in the dactylonomy class.”

    Every finger has a knuckle, two joints and three bones (one joint and two bones for the thumb) and all of them, on both hands, can be used to count up to 9,999. This system can be extended to represent numbers up to one million by positioning the hands in different ways upon different parts of the body.

    How it works:
    Divide each hand into two parts: on the left hand, the middle, ring and little fingers represent the numbers 1 to 9 while the thumb and index fingers represent the tens. On the right hand, the thumb and index fingers represent the hundreds while the remaining three fingers represent the thousands.

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    word for the Day, Wednesday May 18th

    FLIBBERTIGIBBET (FLIB-ur-tee-jib-it) n: A silly, flighty, or scatterbrained person, especially a pert young woman with such qualities.

    “You have to be a flibbertigibbet if you post on a daily basis. I think I’ll use dactylonomy to determine how many of us there are."

    “This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at curfew, and walks till the first ****; he gives the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the hare-lip; mildews the white wheat, and hurts the poor creature of earth. --King Lear, iii. 4.”

    Although there’s a risk of tripping over all those syllables, this is a great word to use on occasion. The original seems to have been recorded about 1450 as fleper-gebet, which may have been just an imitation of the sound of meaningless speech (babble and yadda-yadda-yadda have similar origins). It started out to mean a gossip or chattering person, but quickly seems to have taken on the idea of a flighty or frivolous woman.

    A century later it had become respectable enough for Bishop Latimer to use it in a sermon before King Edward VI, though he wrote it as flybbergybe.

    The modern spelling is due to Shakespeare, who borrowed it from one of the 40 fiends listed in a book by Samuel Harsnet in 1603. In King Lear Edgar uses it for a demon or imp.

    There has been yet a third sense, taken from a character of Sir Walter Scott’s in Kenilworth, for a mischievous and flighty small child. But despite Shakespeare and Scott, the most usual sense is still the original one.

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    Blackguard. We argued about this for weeks at work until someone (me) finally bought a decent dictionary. I thought it was Irish slang for a scoundrel, but it turns out that a blackguard was the lowest servant in the house, responsible for the pots and pans. Not sure when it changed its meaning.
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    A word revisited

    RGC_Man - I beleive that you were more correct before you purchased your dictionary, just a couple of centuries too late.

    BLACKGUARD (blag-gard)A man who behaves in a dishonourable or contemptible way.

    "It’s sad that this contemptuous term for a scoundrel has fallen out of use, since it carries a big punch. Our usual pronunciation as “blaggard” obscures its curious composition. Who or what was the blackguard that got itself such a dreadful reputation? "

    1535 – the term originally referred to the low menials, scullions or kitchen-knaves in a royal or noble household who looked after the pots and pans and other kitchen utensils. Nobody knows for sure why they were said to be black—perhaps the colour of the pots literally or figuratively rubbed off on them. A slightly later sense is of the rabble that followed an army about: the servants, camp-followers and general hangers-on (here black presumably has its common derogatory sense). There seems to be a third sense, which refers to a guard of attendants or soldiers who were dressed in black; it’s possible that there really was a Black Guard—so called—at Westminster about this time (there are account records that refer to them, but nobody has any idea who they actually were).


    1700 - the meaning was changed to a term used for the children and young people who made a living any way they could, either as boot blacks or general assistants to soldiers (presumably this was a joke on the literal form of the word).


    1730 – changed again to the highly offensive term for a scoundrel or villain, or any low worthless minor criminal. THe original meaning was long forgotten.




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    Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking today my post wasn't very precise.

    Here's another purely for the pronunciation:

    Plano. It was strange during an American holiday walking into a Lenscrafters lab at random and hearing the technician talking about "play-no" lenses instead of the British "plah-no".

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    conservative term

    you say tomato, I say potato - Dan Quail VP 1986

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    word for the dya, Friday May 20th

    FAINEANT (fay-nay-AHNG the final "NG" is not pronounced, but the vowel is nasalized)adj: idle and ineffectual : indolent

    “Karen preferred a life of fainéant self-indulgence to the pressures of a career in optometry, and her on-line business made such a life possible.”

    You've probably guessed that "faineant" was borrowed from French; it derives from "fait-nient," which literally means "does nothing," and ultimately traces back to the verb "faindre," or "feindre," meaning "to feign." (The English word "feign" is also descended from this verb, as are "faint" and "feint.") "Faineant" first appeared in print in the early 17th century as a noun meaning "an irresponsible idler," and by 1854 it was also being used an adjective. As its foreignness suggests, "faineant" tends to be used when the context calls for a fancier or more elegant word than "inactive" or "sluggish."

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    word for the day, Monday May 23rd

    GROZE - To nibble away the edges of a brittle material, especially glass.

    This word doesn’t seem to appear in any of the dictionaries but is a relatively common word among craftspeople who work in glass. It refers to the action of taking small bites from the edge of a piece of glass with nippers or pliers to trim it to shape. Since no etymological information is directly available, one can assume it’s derived from the same source as grozing-iron, a term which the Oxford English Dictionary says is long obsolete but which in the nineteenth century was the name for the tool with which glaziers cut glass. This came from the Dutch gruizen, to crush or grind. It’s very prossible that the English verb has been around for at least a century, but since it’s a term limited to one pursuit (a trade term) it hasn’t achieved enough circulation for publishers to justify adding it to dictionaries.


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    word for the day, Tuesday, May 24th

    HYPNOBIOSCOPE (hyp-no-bio-scope) - A fictional device for learning while asleep.

    “Adjusting nose pads and complaining about the evil empire left so little time for improving our education that our office manager installed a hypnobioscope in the break room.” ;)

    This word was invented by Hugo Gernsback who is commemorated in the Hugo Awards, one of SF’s annual prizes. In 1908, Gernsback started publishing his science-based stories in his magazine Modern Electrics for which he coined the term scientifiction that has thankfully not survived.

    In 1911-12 he wrote and published a serial with the snappy title Ralph 124C 41+, set 750 years in the future. Ralph was “one of the greatest living scientists and one of ten men on the whole planet earth permitted to use the Plus sign after his name”.The writing was appalling and the plot mundane—Ralph falls in love with a beautiful young woman and saves her from the clutches of an evil fellow scientist—but as part of the story, Gernsback has him invent a remarkable device: “It remained to Ralph, however, to perfect the Hypnobioscope, which transmitted words direct to the sleeping brain in such a manner that everything could be remembered in detail the next morning. This was made possible by having the impulses act directly and steadily on the brain. For thousands of years humanity had wasted half of its life during sleep—the negative life.”

    This was the first reference in print to the idea that several decades later became known as sleep learning or hypnopaedia, an indirect method of playing recordings to people while they were asleep. (Greek hupnos, sleep, plus paideia, education; the term was first used by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World in 1932).

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    Is grozing similar to shanking?

    Old 'uns will know what I'm talking about.
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    WOrd for the Day, Monday June 6th

    INTERROBANG (in·ter·ro·bang) n.: A punctuation mark in the form of a question mark superimposed on an exclamation point, used to end a simultaneous question and exclamation.

    This punctuation mark is not yet standard, and probably never will be. It was invented in 1962 through the actions of Martin Speckter, head of a New York advertising agency. He felt that advertising people needed a mark that combined a question with a shout, that mixture any parent produces at stressful moments: "You did WHAT?!". His idea was to provide a marker for the rhetorical questions so much favoured by advertising copywriters. He asked readers of his magazine Type Talks to suggest a name for the character, and chose interrobang from among the resulting entries.

    It combined interrogation, for the question mark, with bang, an old printer’s term for the exclamation mark, a usage since taken over into computing (along with pling and shriek from other sources). Alas, though interrobang received some attention at first, it has never caught on, though for a brief period in the 1960s it was added to a few typewriter keyboards. However, it is not dead: its name appears in a couple of American dictionaries, it is in one Windows symbol font I know of, and it is also in the Unicode character set.

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    Word for the Day June 8/9

    nonagenarian (non-uh-juh-NAIR-ee-uhn) noun:
    A ninety year old person; someone whose age is in the nineties.

    There seemed to be relatively few octogenarians and nonagenarians alive in the early 1930s. Contrast that with my current practice, in which I see a great number of patients in their eighties and nineties. -Stephen L. Richmond, "Tales from the Death Certificate," Physician Assistant, January 1999

    Good health is essential, of course--a gift that none of these nonagenarians, having outlived friends and loved ones, takes for granted. -Roy Huffman, "Working Past 90," Fortune, November 13, 2000

    When they have what they believe to be a slam dunk they drive it home like a blind nonagenarian through a farmers market in Santa Monica. –Carl Oda “Feeling the Pressage” Optiboard June 7th 2005

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    word for the dya , Tuesday June14th

    KELEMENOPY (ke-lem-en-opy) n.: A sequential straight line through the middle of everything, leading nowhere.

    Do not seek this word in your dictionary of choice. It will not be there. This is a recent example of what Walter Skeat called ghost words. He coined the term in 1886 when he wrote about the problems of compiling a dictionary. He described them as “words which had never any real existence, being mere coinages due to the blunders of printers or scribes, or to the perfervid imaginations of ignorant or blundering editors”.

    Today's word falls into a sub-category of hoaxing ghost words that are admitted not to exist. It was coined by John Ciardi, the American poet, in A Browser’s Dictionary in 1980. He said it was “from my own psychic warp, to see if anyone would notice, and because I have always dreamed of fathering a word”. (Haven’t we all?) The genesis of his creation was the sequence klmnop from the centre of the alphabet, with ten letters before and ten after it, which Mr Ciardi described as “a strictly sequential irrelevance”.

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    Word for the Day, Wednesday June 15th

    unctuous \UNK-chuh-wus\ adjective
    1a : fatty, oily
    1b : smooth and greasy in texture or appearance
    2 : plastic
    3 : revealing or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality

    "The unctuous optician tried every gimmick in the book, trying to get the her to spend more of her ample supply of money. But she was not impressed and insisted on poly in a cheap plastic frame."

    Nowadays, "unctuous" has a negative connotation, but it originated in a term describing a positive act, that of healing. The word comes from the Latin verb "unguere," which means "to anoint," a root that also gave rise to the words "unguent" and "ointment." The oily nature of ointments may have led to the application of "unctuous" to describe things that are afflicted with an artificial gloss of sentimentality. An unctuous individual may mean well, but his or her insincere earnestness may leave an unwelcome residue with others, much like some ointments.

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    word for the day, June 16th Thursday

    MACILENT (ma-sil-ent) adj.: Lean, shriveled, or excessively thin.

    This word was marked as rare in dictionaries a century ago and has become even more so since, though it retains a niche in elevated or pretentious prose. It’s from Latin macilentus, lean. In 1851 a writer used it to describe an over worked optician at the end of a very long day: “of whom I could recollect nothing but a macilent figure, stretched upon a sofa and scarcely breathing”.

    It can also have a figurative sense that refers to poor-quality or inferior writing. A reviewer of Opti-board posts once described one of the responses to a controversial subject to be “as lost and macilent and alluring and eager to please and disturbingly empty-eyed as the author.”

    A more common use is as an adjective describing the inherent properties of a lens material. “The stinking rich, once they have bathed, prefer a macilent lens and are quite willing to pay a little extra, assuming they can find a qualified optician who can justify the cost. ”

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    word for the day, Friday June 17th

    MAKEBATE - A person who creates contention or strife.

    We’ve all met people like this, whose chief aim or pleasure is to spread discord and disharmony. Sir Walter Scott was a great user of this word, as here in The Abbot (1820): “Elsewhere he may be an useful and profitable member of the commonweal—here he is but a makebate, and a stumbling-block of offence.”

    Somebody who is a makebate is clearly making a bate. The second half survives today in abate and debate; it comes from Latin battere, to beat or fight. As a noun, bate described discord that was severe enough to result in a fight.

    British readers might think they recognise in this another form of bate, a fit of rage or bad temper, an example of which appeared in the Daily Mail in January 2004: “Shrieking with simulated frustration, Clarkson flew into a bate, picked up a hammer and smashed his desktop to smithereens.” But the evidence suggests this bate derives from a nineteenth-century respelling of the verb bait, to persecute a person with persistent attacks, so that a person was said to be in a bate as a result of being baited.

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    Makebate: Is this an old synonym for Democratic Senator?

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    Makebates or Mugwumps, you be the judge

    Chip wrote:
    Makebate: Is this an old synonym for Democratic Senator?
    I beleive you may be thinking of MUGWUMP - A person who remains aloof from controversial issues.

    This archetypal American word derives from the Algonquian dialect of a group of Native Americans in Massachusetts. In their language, it meant “great chief”.

    Mugwump was brought into English in the early nineteenth century as a humorous term for a boss, bigwig, grand panjandrum, or other person in authority, often one of a minor and inconsequential sort. This example comes from a story in an 1867 issue of Atlantic Monthly: “I’ve got one of your gang in irons — the Great Mugwump himself, I reckon — strongly guarded by men armed to the teeth; so you just ride up here and surrender”.

    The word hit the big time in 1884, during the presidential election that set Grover Cleveland against the Republican James G Blaine. Some Republicans refused to support Blaine, changed sides, and the New York Sun labelled them little mugwumps. Later, it came to mean a politician who either could not or would not make up his mind on some important issue, or who refused to take a stand when expected to do so. Hence the old joke that a mugwump is a person sitting on the fence, with his mug on one side and his wump on the other.
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    WOrd for the Day, June 21st

    MULLIGRUBS - A state of depression or low spirits.

    "All this talk about makebates and mugwumps, put me into a mulligrub."

    If makebates and mugwumps didn’t get your goat, than mulligrubs will most assuredly do the trick..

    It’s not altogether certain where this strange-looking word comes from. The first spelling, which appears at the end of the sixteenth century, is mulliegrums. That may be a fanciful form of the older megrims for a headache, an English contortion of the French migraine. By the sixteenth century megrims could refer to somebody suffering from low spirits, the same sense as mulligrubs then had. Later, mulligrubs could be used humorously for an attack of colic or stomach-ache.

    You will find it only in the most comprehensive of modern dictionaries, as it is now rarely encountered outside some British dialects. That’s a pity, as it deserves wider circulation. Here’s an example, dated 1898, from Brann The Iconoclast by William Cowper Brann:

    “It is easy enough to say that a pessimist is a person afflicted with an incurable case of mulligrubs—one whom nothing in all earth or Heaven or Hades pleases; one who usually deserves nothing, yet grumbles if he gets it”.

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    Word for the Day, June 22nd Wednesday

    NESCIENT - Ignorant.

    This is a most useful word, unknown to most people, with which you may bait your opponents: if they don’t know the word, then their ignorance is doubly obvious. It comes from Latin nescire, to be ignorant, from scire, to know. This is the same Latin stem that bequeathed us nice, a word which has gone through more shifts of sense than almost any other, but which started out meaning “foolish” or “stupid”.

    Nescient is rare, though it appears in Ulysses by James Joyce, in which he speaks of “the lethargy of nescient matter”. The noun, nescience, is somewhat more common; G K Chesterton used it in The Innocence of Father Brown:


    “Flambeau had been missed at Harwich; and if he was in London at all, he might be anything from a tall tramp on Wimbledon Common to a tall toast-master at the Hotel Metropole. In such a naked state of nescience, Valentin had a view and a method of his own”.

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    A word for Thursday, June 24th

    OMPHALOSKEPSIS - contemplating one’s navel as an aid to meditation.

    This word seems to be relatively new, at least the Merriam-Webster “Word of the Day” column claims it to have been invented only in the 1920s. It turns up in only a few dictionaries and seems to be a word that survives more for the chance to show off one’s erudition than as a real aid to communication. If so, this article is a further perpetuation of its unreal status. It is formed from two Greek words, omphalos, “navel, boss, hub”, and skepsis, “the act of looking; enquiry”. The former turns up in words such as omphalotomy, “cutting of the umbilical cord”, in the related omphalopsychic for one of a group of mystics who practised gazing at the navel as a means of inducing hypnotic reverie, and omphalomancy, an ancient form of divination in which the number of children a woman would bear was determined from counting the knots in her umbilical cord at birth.

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    word for the day - June 29th

    PARALIPSIS - A rhetorical device.

    There are so many technical terms in rhetoric—aporia, hypallage, paraprosdokian, and zeugma are just a few—that I need to look them up as I can’t seem to keep them in mind. If I had wanted to learn a stack of weird words, I’d have taken up optometry.

    Paralipsis is a kind of irony, a rhetorical trick by which the speaker or writer emphasizes something by professing to ignore it. Key phrases that give you the clue to an approaching paralipsis include “not to mention”, “to say nothing of”, “leaving aside”, “without considering”, and “far be it from me to mention”. For example:

    "It would be unseemly for me dwell on the Evil Empire’s forward thinking business plan to bring both quality and profit back into the industry."

    "Far be it from me to mention that some people will fail to see the writing on the wall."

    "Surely I need not remind any of us that some people are more focused on making the most amount of profit instead of aquiring an in depth understanding of the products they are selling."

    "It would be most inappropriate for me to point out the shortcomings of some of the opticians I’ve surveyed to date."

    "Let’s not even mention that the lack of national standards may not be the real issue."

    "I would never question whether profit is the determining factor in how well the patient will see as apposed to the measuring capabilities of the optician."
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    word for the day, Thursday June 30th

    PEBKAC (peb-cack) noun – an IT term for a problem that exists between keyboard and chair.

    Example Sentence: "The least reliable and most generally irksome component of a computer system is the warm soft one that spends its time staring at the monitor."

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    Rimlesses. Is this a word? I suppose it depends if rimless is a noun or adjective. Didn't sound right when a colleague used it at work today.
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