Comments | nixblack: How can my six year old know words that I don't?

nixblack

How can my six year old know words that I don't?

Oct 20, 2005 10:54

Well I am sat here at my computer, eating My Super Noodles (chicken flavour with cheese melted over the top), with my dictionary open in front of me, trying to fathom the meaning of a word that my daughter Gabrielle will be saying in her class assembly tomorrow! The word is PLENARY, and the dictionary says it means - ATTENDED BY ALL MEMBERS/ ( Read more... )

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okokjazz October 20 2005, 10:43:58 UTC

*plays with OED*

from what I can gather, and even the OED doesn't seem sure, it is probably short for 'plenary session', which ought to be a sort of decisive council gathering attended by everybody, but that isn't entirely clear. It's probably an americanism we aren't really sure about over here... The word's basically an adjective but gets used as a noun rarely, as in here.

So no, I wouldn't have said you should know it and I would doubt most of the other mums will know it either...! What's the assembly about?

nixblack October 20 2005, 13:20:15 UTC

Well jazz, I think it's basically about the work that they've done so far! A prelude to parents evening in two weeks! To butter us up, lol! Thanks so much for looking for me! I am intrigued, what is OED?

huggles nix

okokjazz October 20 2005, 14:53:54 UTC

oed = oxford english dictionary, The Lexicon of Lexicons and fount of all knowledge.

the word comes from the latin meaning 'full' - however i would agree that in this context it's basically bollocks. someone's been playing iwht a thesaurus and no dictionary. *sigh*.

okokjazz October 20 2005, 16:05:50 UTC

OMG, duh! Oxford English Dictionary!!!!! lol, I did go to school *honest*

lupacalia October 20 2005, 13:00:42 UTC

OMG nix I don't know what that word means either!
I will have to go back to school with you.
I'm really hungry at the mo - save us some noodles! ;)

Luparoo x

nixblack October 20 2005, 13:21:28 UTC

sorry Lupa, all gone, lol, Don't worry though, I have a cupboard full.

huggles nix

mauvaise_etoile October 20 2005, 14:07:53 UTC

That's a pretty advanced word for a six year old. Sheesh! But the context doesn't make sense, so don't worry. Its an adjective, not a noun. Whoever wrote the little ditty she is reciting, clearly needs to go back to school also ;)