Four Years and a New Look

If you come here often, and I hope you do. You will have noticed a few changes in the past few weeks.

the Daye. as it is now known began as The Word of The Daye or WOTD in July of 2006 with the announcement that it was to begin in October of 2006. Why three months to prepare? I can't say, although it seems strange now, I think I was trying to come up with a topic.

I am happy to report, however, that if you look at this you will see I not only DID post the next entry on October 1, 2006, I even made of a funky WOTD logo to go with the first WOTD, which for the record was; abrogate.

Since that initial WOTD this blog as morphed and become what you see today. For awhile there was regular POTD, or Place of The Daye posts with screenshots from Google Earth. There was the Southpark character  creator and there were various causes, holidays and things. One of the most viewed posts ever is the We Tour America Scam post, which still gets regular daily traffic. I guess that guy is still scamming America.

transpontine (trans-PON-tyn) adjective

transpontine (trans-PON-tyn) adjective

1. Across the bridge.

2. Situated on the south side of the Thames River in London.

3. Melodramatic (alluding to the type of dramas once performed
in theaters south of the Thames).

[From Latin trans- (across) + pont (bridge). Ultimately from the
Indo-European root pent- (to tread) that also gave us words such as
English find, Dutch pad (path), French pont (bridge), and Russian
sputnik (traveling companion).]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

"Baker was short and chunky and transpontine -- he lived over the bridge
in Barnes with his mum and cacti."
Johnny Green and Garry Barker; A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the
Clash; Faber & Faber; 1999.

"The singer who makes the biggest splash is Lauren Flanigan, prone to
transpontine acting at critical moments."
Michael Tanner; Solemnity of Weber; The Spectator (London, UK); Jul 6, 2002.

Pronunciation:
http://wordsmith.org/words/transpontine.wav
http://wordsmith.org/words/transpontine.ram

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dictatress (dik-TAY-tres) noun

dictatress (dik-TAY-tres) noun

A female dictator.

[From Latin dictator, from dictare (to dictate), frequentative of dicere
(to say). Ultimately from the Indo-European root deik- (to show, to pronounce
solemnly) that is also the source of other words such as judge, verdict,
vendetta, revenge, indicate, dictate, and paradigm.]

"America ... might become dictatress of the world. She would be no
longer the ruler of her own spirit."
John Quincy Adams; Address; Jul 4, 1821; quoted in The Yale Book of
Quotations.

Pronunciation:
http://wordsmith.org/words/dictatress.wav
http://wordsmith.org/words/dictatress.ram

Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/dictatress.html

Word of the Daye

ses*qui*pe*da*li*an
Pronunciation [ses-kwi-pi-dey-lee-uhn, -deyl-yuhn]
1.
given to using long words.
2.
(of a word) containing many syllables. -noun

Black's arrogance was reflected in his sesquipedalian language, the contempt in which he held so many people, his lavish lifestyle, and the willing surrender of his Canadian citizenship for a British title.

( Toronto Star)

ergophobic

ergophobic
Someone who fears work. Usually, this word is used jocularly.

Source: Weird And Wonderful Words
Published by: Oxford University Press

retcon

retcon

an often-condemned practice of writers for television and other serial stories, such as comic books, in which they were mentioned previously unknown events in order to justify current plot points. The word is a blend of the words retroactive and continuity.

Source: Weird And Wonderful Words.

Published by: Oxford University Press.

jumentous

jumentous
a very rare adjective meaning 'resembling horses urine.'
In the nineteenth century, the Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and Allied Sciences defined this word as 'a term applied to urine which is high colored, strong smelling, and turbid, like that of the horse.' It comes from jument, an obsolete word that means 'a beast of burden.'

Source: Weird And Wonderful Words
Publisher: Oxford University Press.