Posted on 07/10/2014 5:16:40 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
epenthesis \ih-PEN-thuh-sis\noun
the insertion or development of a sound or letter in the body of a word.
Example sentences:
The "b" in the adjective "nimble" is the result of epenthesis; in Middle English, the word was spelled "nimel."
"When Yogi Bear talks about swiping 'pick-a-nick' baskets in Jellystone Park, it sounds as if he's just having fun, but he's also demonstrating 'epenthesis,' inserting a vowel to avoid the consonants bumping up against each other."
— Ruth Walker,The Christian Science Monitor, August 15, 2012
Etymology:
If you say "film" as "FIL-um," with two syllables, you've committed epenthesis. It isn't a punishable offense—in fact, it's not an offense at all. It is simply a natural way to break up an awkward cluster of consonants. It's easier for some people to say "film" as two syllables instead of one, just as it's easier for some to insert a "b" sound into "cummerbund," pronouncing that word as "CUM-ber-bund.” From Late Latin from Greek, from epentithenai to insert, from epi- + en- ² + tithenai to place] and from Greek thésis a setting down, something set down, equivalent to the- (stem of tithénai to put, set down) + -sis -sis
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
I think that’s from The Perks of Being a Wallflower. My son said it was a good book, before the movie came out.
I love that you put strategery in there. A++! And send some showers to us. We had a cool front roll in overnight but all it did was reduce the humidity by about 5%. Not that I’m complaining, but we haven’t had any rain for weeks and we need it.
When I gave the dog a few sunflower kernels at breakfast, same as every morning, Midget girl stood up with her paws on the chair edge, begging, so I put a few on a paper towel and set it on the floor in front of her. She ate them-I’ve never seen a cat eat stuff like that-I had put fresh food in their bowls less than an hour before...
We haven’t had rain in a coup[le of weeks, either-those little showers don’t do much more than cool things down, but that is fine-we need some real rain...
Thank you! And will you share the cool front? The days are at and above 90 now...
Jules was barking his fool head off a doe this AM> I guess she was in the yard eating apples, and I let him out around 5:20 and then I heard him barking thinking, GREAT, am sure the neighbors appreciate that at this hour, and when I opened the front door and went out, I saw her on the other side of the flower bed from him, looking alarmed, before she took off across the neighbors yard and fence. He was constrained by the electric fence and can’t cross the driveway.
she’s such a COPYCATTER! ; )
My cat refuses to eat anything but his dry cat food. He doesn’t even like cat tricks and thinks we are trying to poison him.
I saw a doe with her fawn in the river alongside the trail this morning. And there was a tom turkey strutting his stuff out in one of the fields.
Whose apples are the deer eating-are they fallen ones? We put 6 foot game fencing around fruit trees and gardens-fruit that has fallen to the ground is all the critters get...
it’s crabapples or some small kind of apple from a tree in the neighbors yard that falls into ours. none of us would eat them so she is welcome to them.
Yeti boy had the treats-must-be-poison mentality when we first adopted him, too-it was a couple of years before he would eat one-now he would eat a whole package of that Friskies party mix if I gave it to him. Titus and Midget like bits of cheese and chicken from my salads, but Yeti will only eat bits of pepperoni.
They are all picky about their cat food-only Friskies dry, preferably seafood sensations-they will eat other brands of wet food, but will turn up their noses at other brands of dry food-ungrateful shelter cats...
Oh, I thought the deer were eating someone’s regular apples-this part of the hill country is good for apples-the big orchards in this county do an apple festival in late July/early August-they sell baskets of apples, craft stuff, little apple trees, etc. Crabapples here are good to eat-they grow wild, but a lot of people plant the trees as an ornamental plant, too.
neighbors who have since moved planted these, probably to set at least some visual barrier between their house and ours when we first moved in. Apple orchards are a bit farther out than we are, on Route 66. We used to go when the kids were little to pick them there.
The turkeys know when there is no hunting allowed, I think-just bow hunting is allowed, and only on 5 or more acres because this is technically a neighborhood with acreage lots. The way those turkeys run around, they are well aware how hard it is to hunt them with a bow...
The festival is held in the community where several large orchards are-about 20 miles away. MrT5 and I used to go to one where you paid $7.00 to pick a basket of apples-about 1/2 bushel.
Tobias get ProPlan Hairball Mgmt, which I have been assured keeps his regular hairball problem to a minimum. And he gets brushed with the furminator several times a week. He is not a short-haired or long-haired, somewhere in between.
I was disgusted with that piece late last night, because it is spot-on. What about Bergdahl? He’s already old news in this new scandal every 20 minutes administration. A+ for you.
Yeti Boy and Titus both have long, pretty fur, and they get brushed every day with a brush for long-haired cats I got from an online pet supply-it works great. Yeti boy’s undercoat is more like a dog’s-dense and thick-the vet says he obviously was born in a cold climate, which fits-his former owner was from NH, and he is to all appearances a Maine Coon, right to his large size and big snowshoe paws.
The Midget gets brushed and she loves it-but she is short haired and sleek. I mix hairball stuff in their food because of the two furry ones. I know people who clip down their long haired cats in Summer-I always got our Chow a bear clip every Summer, but I’ve never seen the point in getting a cat a short clip...
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