Words you've never heard of before
Discussion
What new words have you just discovered?
Despite having roamed this planet for early 53 years I often come across new words (like the one below that was recently posted on PH) that I've never seen or heard of before, and I always wonder if I'm the only thick one that doesn't know the word, and everyone else does
obfuscation
Despite having roamed this planet for early 53 years I often come across new words (like the one below that was recently posted on PH) that I've never seen or heard of before, and I always wonder if I'm the only thick one that doesn't know the word, and everyone else does
obfuscation
Ooh a thread I have nearly started many times.
A couple of years ago starting my first job post graduation (graduating at 57) using my newly gained enthusiasm and knowledge within the NHS I started the "Wednesday word" in our office. It was a small office with jaded stuck in routine people. I presented a word from three different areas, medical, words from my previous specialist knowledge or random. It was on a Wednesday as that was the only day everyone was in the office.
Within a few weeks everyone was researching words or picking up on words that they hadn't heard before but had heard for the first time in the previous week.
I believe English has more words than any other language but the average number of words by someone living in Britain in their everyday day life is about 800 words. This could now be incorrect and I could be misremembering a paper I read. Really happy to be critiqued on this but I think the stats on word usage compared to words available in English is shocking.
Here is my word, that enthused me about words in junior school. The task was to find a word you previously didn't know and present it to the class. My word that I found was xenodochium, a small ante room or porch. Obviously Latin based, split in two xeno and dochium.
I apologise for any grammar or spelling mistakes up front. I am not as cognitive as I might have been before, age does diminish functionality from birth to death we all follow a positive then declining continuum.
Llentil
A couple of years ago starting my first job post graduation (graduating at 57) using my newly gained enthusiasm and knowledge within the NHS I started the "Wednesday word" in our office. It was a small office with jaded stuck in routine people. I presented a word from three different areas, medical, words from my previous specialist knowledge or random. It was on a Wednesday as that was the only day everyone was in the office.
Within a few weeks everyone was researching words or picking up on words that they hadn't heard before but had heard for the first time in the previous week.
I believe English has more words than any other language but the average number of words by someone living in Britain in their everyday day life is about 800 words. This could now be incorrect and I could be misremembering a paper I read. Really happy to be critiqued on this but I think the stats on word usage compared to words available in English is shocking.
Here is my word, that enthused me about words in junior school. The task was to find a word you previously didn't know and present it to the class. My word that I found was xenodochium, a small ante room or porch. Obviously Latin based, split in two xeno and dochium.
I apologise for any grammar or spelling mistakes up front. I am not as cognitive as I might have been before, age does diminish functionality from birth to death we all follow a positive then declining continuum.
Llentil
Was watching pointless the other day and Scottish words for snow came up and had never heard any of them.
Ergh was a red herring and is cornish for snow
Slubber slushy snow - pointless
Hog-reek - pointless
Lochaber - false, a place in the highlands
Skelf - a large snowflake
Feuchter - light, odd shaped snow
Not sure I will be making much use of my new found words.
Ergh was a red herring and is cornish for snow
Slubber slushy snow - pointless
Hog-reek - pointless
Lochaber - false, a place in the highlands
Skelf - a large snowflake
Feuchter - light, odd shaped snow
Not sure I will be making much use of my new found words.
Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff