This week’s obscure English word is echard. It’s a scientific term that refers to water in the soil that is not available for use by plants. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2019 Advertisements
This week’s obscure English word is cabotage. It means to ship goods or sail between two points in the same country. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2019
This week’s obscure English word is larboard. It’s another term for the port side of a ship, often used, as far as I can tell, in the US Midwest riverboats during the nineteenth century (another term was ‘mark twain’, a reference to the number of knots on a rope used to plumb the river for … More The obscure word of the week is larboard, Mr Clemens
English is a wonderful language that never ceases to surprise with its ability to evolve with society, to change and twirl through usage. It happens right before our eyes, in an astonishingly short time. And I don’t just mean the way that the noun ‘invitation’ has been supplanted by its verb form (‘to invite’), creating … More I’m woke to the gerundification of English
This week’s obscure English word is zosteriform. It means something shaped like a girdle. Your challenge: make up a sentence using this word, in the comments. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2019
This week’s obscure English word is languescent. It means ‘to become languid’ – in effect, relaxed and without energy. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2019
This week’s obscure English word is sabulous. It’s a description of a plant that grows in sandy places. Ones that do could be said to be absolutely sabulous. Your challenge: make up a sentence using this word, in the comments. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2019
