equinox...

[emmacrew]

So, my mom had an emergency preparedness neighborhood meeting where, among other things, they discussed changing your smoke detector batteries, and how the suggestion used to be to do it at the time change, but that was getting lopsided now. So she said she planned to do hers at the equinoxes, and got a roomful of blank stares

Comments

[greyaenigma]

I think it'd be pretty easy to miss when the equinoxi happen. I never remember when they are, myself. (I can't even keep track of when the time changes are, and those require you to do something.

[emmacrew]

True enough, but at least you know what the word means...

[greyaenigma]

A rudimentary grasp of latin does help.

[dougo]

Not enough, apparently: it's equinoctes in Latin, not equinoxi.

[greyaenigma]

A) that was a jocular pluralization, and

B) rudimentary / "r\"u-d&-'men-t&-rE, -'men-trE / adjective /
1: consisting in first principles : FUNDAMENTAL
2: of a primitive kind
3: very imperfectly developed or represented only by a vestige