Showing posts with label wordsmith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wordsmith. Show all posts

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Guess I Heard That Wrong

Fresh out of the oven: A fast shot to heaven
Buckingham: By a lucky hand

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Morganatically

A new word I've discovered describes the way the aristocracy handles the transfer of fortune and privilege. In this type of marriage, a person of higher status will marry one of lower status based on the condition that neither the spouse or the couple's children have claim to the title or estate.

That's very harsh.

 I've just started watching Downton Abbey so I do not know if the union between Lady Sybil Crawley. (Jessica Brown Findlay) and the former chauffeur Mr. Branson is a morgantic marriage.


Sunday, December 16, 2012

Elementary Eleemosynary

I encountered a new word today.  It is so odd looking: eleemosynary - of, relating to, or supported by charity. According to Merriam Webster, it comes from the Medieval Latin eleemosynarius, from Late Latin eleemosyna  meaning alms. First Known Use: circa 1616

I found it is a description of county council legislation to provide preferential zoning criteria for charitable organizations. 


Raising Xmas fund for Salvation Army (LOC) by The Library of Congress, on Flickr