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19/12/2013

Word of the day
"ambulate"
AM-byuh-leyt

verb : to walk about or move from place to place.

Quotes : The woman walked slowly, with a halting gait, as if she'd been forced to ambulate with a pair of swim fins for shoes.
-- Sue Grafton , "E" is for Evidence , 1988

It must be admitted that we who ambulate in pants, lie to each other in business and bunco our neighbors, in order to secure the lithographs of commerce, so that we can furnish the gentle herd with the means to live, are not perfect.
-- Charles Summers , The Nomads , 1903

Origin : Ambulate comes from the Latin ambulāre meaning "to walk." It entered English in the 1600s.

18/12/2013

Newly coined word in English "Selfie"
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛlfi/
(also selfy)

noun (plural selfies) informal
a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or we**am and uploaded to a social media website:
occasional selfies are acceptable, but posting a new picture of yourself every day isn’t necessary

Origin: early 21st century: from self + -ie

18/12/2013

Common Grammatical Errors

Use of the word. "another".

We use "another" with countable nouns not with uncountable nouns.

= We need another information before we can reach a decision.

= We need more information before we can reach a decision.

The second sentence is the correct expression.

17/12/2013

Word of the Day

"transpontine"
trans-PON-tin, -tahyn

adjective

1, across or beyond a bridge.

2, on the southern side of the Thames in London.
Quotes

There was nothing left but to retreat against the railing, and with my back turned to the street, pretend to be admiring the barges on the river or the chimneys of transpontine London.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson and F***y Vandergrift , "Narrative of the Spirited Old Lady," More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter , 1885...

he had come straight from a wretched transpontine lodging to this splendid Lincolnshire mansion, and had at the same time exchanged a stipend of thirty shillings a week for an income of eleven thousand a year…"
-- Mary Elizabeth Braddon , John Marchmont's Legacy , 1862–1863

Origin

Transpontine comes from the Latin trans- + pont- meaning "across" + "bridge."

17/12/2013

Word of the day: cathexis
kuh-THEK-sis

noun

Psychoanalysis. the investment of emotional significance in an activity, object, or idea.
Psychoanalysis. the charge of psychic energy so invested.
Quotes

She remembered so clearly the surprise of that first cathexis with Earth across the light-years…
-- Ian Watson , Very Slow Time Machine , 1979

Now our primary libidinal cathexis is with machines. Cars, power tools, computers, Kitchen Aids, audiophile equipment.
-- Curtis White , Requiem , 2001

Origin

Cathexis ultimately comes from the Proto-Indo-European root segh- meaning "to hold." It entered English in the 1920s.

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