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Word For The Day, Thursday, January 12, 2012 - paregmenon
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| 12 January 2012
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Posted on 01/12/2012 4:42:54 AM PST 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".
paregmenon \puh-REG-muh-non\ , noun
The juxtaposition of words that have a common derivation, as in sense and sensibility.
Example sentences:
Although as artificial as his use of traductio, this use of paregmenon at least reveals Sidney's ingenuity and wit.
-- Sherod M. Cooper, The Sonnets of Astrophel and Stella
The recurrence of the same word with a different inflection, as in the polyptoton, or of different words of the same origin, as in the paregmenon, draws attention to the word thus recurring, and adds somewhat to its logical worth.
-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Philological Studies with English Illustrations
Etymology:
Paregmenon comes from the Greek word parēēgménon meaning "to bring side by side or derive."
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 Threads:Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
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01/12/2012 4:44:13 AM PST
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secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden; SoothingDave; Explorer89
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posted on
01/12/2012 4:51:07 AM PST
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xsmommy
To: xsmommy
A for yinz.
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posted on
01/12/2012 4:53:49 AM PST
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secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
You got me! A word I never heard before.
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:04:34 AM PST
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from occupied ga
(your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: secret garden
I’d offer my wit and wisdom, but I charge for the privilege.
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01/12/2012 5:06:13 AM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(If "everybody's different" then two of them have to be the same. It's the only way to be different.)
To: secret garden
A paragon of paregmenon attempts traductio with “paragon”.
To: secret garden
Daniel Webster:
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"
Barack Obama:
"Hope and Change!"
Webster, a great orator, was a master of paragmenon; Obama, a pathetic president, is a master of the teleprompter.
Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!
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01/12/2012 5:26:02 AM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: secret garden
Daniel Webster:
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"
Barack Obama:
"Hope and Change!"
Webster, a great orator, was a master of paragmenon; Obama, a pathetic president, is a master of the teleprompter.
Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!
9
posted on
01/12/2012 5:26:17 AM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: xsmommy
I try to avoid and evade peregmenons in my writ and my writing, as I find them evasive and invasive.
}:-)
To: NicknamedBob
A for effort!
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:40:14 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
I have a simple paregmenon... it's so Obvious...
Obama and Diarrhea
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01/12/2012 5:41:00 AM PST
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theDentist
(FYBO/FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: from occupied ga
Whoops! You and NNB can swap ribbons.
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:41:21 AM PST
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secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: rightwingcrazy
Good try! Welcome to WFTD!
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:42:34 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: ConorMacNessa
And he wrote his own speeches. A for you, F- for the teleprompter’s voice.
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01/12/2012 5:43:30 AM PST
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secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: left that other site
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:44:17 AM PST
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secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: theDentist
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:45:03 AM PST
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secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
Thanks and Thanksgiving!
}:-)
To: secret garden
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01/12/2012 5:58:18 AM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(Free TOTUS)
To: secret garden; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
The episodes of Blackadder the Third are:
Dish and Dishonesty
Ink and Incapability
Nob and Nobility
Sense and Senility
Amy and Amiability
Duel and Duality
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