This Week's Word: concordanceAWAD archive date: Sat Feb 12 00:04:24 EST 2000

concordance (kuhn-KOR-dns) noun
The weight of the insect was very remarkable, and, taking all thingsinto consideration, I could hardly blame Jupiter for his opinionrespecting it; but what to make of Legrand's concordance with that opinion, I could not, for the life of me, ( Read more... )

This Week's Word: concordanceAWAD archive date: Sat Feb 12 00:04:24 EST 2000

concordance (kuhn-KOR-dns) noun
"They began with a concordance to the scrolls -- an index that lists each word -- prepared under the auspices of the official team in the 1950s but not made available until 1988 ( Read more... )

This Week's Word: lexemeAWAD archive date: Fri Feb 11 00:04:30 EST 2000

lexeme (LEK-seem) noun
"Lexeme's translation software breaks a language down into its tiniest building blocks, called lexemes."
Edward C. Baig, Bilingual Software: New programs Automatically Translate Computer Language, Fortune, 21 Jul 1986.

The current theme: words about words.

This Week's Word: florilegiumAWAD archive date: Thu Feb 10 00:04:27 EST 2000

florilegium
"One of the most telltale of these is the ever-growing popularity of the digest, the epitome, the florilegium, the anthology."
Green, Peter, The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation (book reviews), The New Republic, 19 Feb 1996.

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This Week's Word: orthographyAWAD archive date: Wed Feb 9 00:04:37 EST 2000orthography "Pierrat turned the handle of the screw-jack, the boot was contracted,and the unhappy girl uttered one of those horrible cries which have no orthography in any human language."
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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This Week's Word: orthographyAWAD archive date: Wed Feb 9 00:04:37 EST 2000orthography

"But Echo doesn't know what to do with the remaining six decades of her life. She's crushed to learn that her obsession has no future. There is no adult division of orthography, no Super Bowl of spellers."
Steve Parks, To Bee or Not to Bee, Newsday, 2 Jun 1993.
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This Week's Word: omnibusAWAD archive date: Tue Feb 8 00:04:32 EST 2000omnibus"The Lake Shore Railroad then ended at Ashtabula, in a bank of sand, andmy elder brother and I walked up from the station, while the rest ofthe family, which pretty well filled the omnibus, rode."
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean

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This Week's Word: omnibusAWAD archive date: Tue Feb 8 00:04:32 EST 2000omnibus"If the general intellectual for whom he wrote now looks at them at all, it would be in the anthology of extracts he prepared in Bricks to Babel: an omnibus volume from 1982 ...." Bernard Crick, Books: Putting the rat in rational, Independent, 7 Nov 1998.
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This Week's Word: snigletAWAD archive date: Mon Feb 7 00:04:24 EST 2000sniglet (SNIG-lit) noun "There is no word for it, but there ought to be one. Baseball has numbers for everything. What it needs is another term, a sniglet for the kind of game the Mets experienced ...."
Marty Noble, Division Series, Newsday, 8 Oct 1999.
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This Week's Word: exhilaration AWAD archive date: Sun Feb 6 00:04:30 EST 2000exhilaration (ig-zil-uh-RAY-shuhn) noun "Accept the challenges, so you may feel the EXHILARATION of victory."
George S. Patton