This week’s obscure English word is experient. It’s a noun and refers to someone who is having an experience, just as ‘incumbent’ is used to mean somebody who occupies a position. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2021
This week’s obscure English word is hornist. It typically refers to somebody who performs on the French Horn. One of the better-known pieces featuring the French Horn was, of course, Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat, K 495. This is in two movements, an Allegro and a Rondo. And here’s the Rondo, as … More The obscure word of the week is hornist
This week’s obscure English word is gelid. It means extremely cold, as in frosty or icy, and derives from the original Latin gelidus. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2021
It is almost 93 years since Erich Maria Remarque’s memoir of the First World War appeared in the pages of the newspaper Vossische Zeitung. It emerged in book form a few months later – January 1929 – and was made into a movie the following year. An English translation was published by Putnam in March … More All quiet on the blogging front
This week’s obscure English word is kneebrush. It refers to the tuft of fur found on the knees of antelopes, among other animals. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2021
There’s a new usage emerged of late in everyday English which I find a little annoying. It’s come up in the last year or so and involves substituting ‘the’ for ‘a’ or ‘an’ in an intensifer comparison. You know: ‘this person is quite an expert’, which these days has become ‘this person is quite the … More English phrases that are quite an annoyance
This week’s obscure English word is fisc. It is an older word meaning a state or royal treasury, derived from the Latin fiscus. The more common term ‘fiscal’, as in government spending policy, is related to it. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2021
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This is the latest edition to the NZ Series of historical facts that are a very valuable resource for New Zealand schools. This is a concise short version of a larger work by the same author but it doesn’t scrimp on fact and is a powerful work in it’s…
This week’s obscure English word is hector. It means to harass somebody with a repeated request or demand to which they are expected to comply. It’s also the name of a Greek hero, unrelated to Diana of Themyscira, but that’s another meaning altogether. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this … More The obscure word of the week is hector
This week’s obscure English word is abashed. It’s somewhat archaic and means ’embarrassed’. The more common word today is ‘unabashed’, as in not embarrassed – one of a number of English words where the original term has fallen out of use, but its negative remains with us. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in … More The obscure word of the week is abashed
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