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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (22 May 1859-1930)
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Today's word is gazunder. Remember Monday's word? To gazump is to raise the price after accepting an offer from a buyer, but buyers are not always angels. Sometimes a buyer reduces the offer just before signing the contract. This typically happen in the housing market.
While legal, the practice is clearly unethical. It's fitting then, that the word gazunder has another slang meaning, though it's unrelated to today's word. It also refers to a chamber pot, from the condensed spelling of "goes under" referring to where a chamber pot is placed.
Learn more, and see the rest of this week's words at: wordsmith.org/words/gazunder.html
The final word this week is Prince Charming, named for the fairy-tale hero of many stories, such as, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Earliest documented use: 1850.
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Today's word is heterography, which comes from Greek hetero- (different) + -graphy (writing). Earliest documented use: 1783.
Learn more, and see the rest of the words from this week's theme "What the h..." at: wordsmith.org/words/heterography.html
The idea of heterography is a recent phenomenon, relatively speaking. Earlier, when English was mainly a spoken language, it was a free-for-all, spelling-wise. Any spelling was fine as long as you could make yourself understood. Each writer spelled words in their own way, trying to spell them phonetically. Shakespeare spelled his own name in various ways (Shaxspear, Shakespear, and so on).
If you read old manuscripts, you can find different spellings of a word on the same page, and sometimes even in the same sentence. Spelling wasn’t something sacrosanct: if a line was too long to fit, a typesetter might simply squeeze or expand the word by altering the spelling.
If the idea of to-each-one’s-own spelling for the same word sounds bizarre, consider how we practice it even today, in the only place we can: in our names. Look around you and you might find a Christina and a Cristina and a Kristina and many other permutations and combinations.
With the advent of printing in the 15th century, spelling began to become standardized. By the 19th century, most words had a single “official” spelling, as a consensus, not by the diktat of a committee.
Today if you write “definately” and someone points out that you’ve misspelled the word, just tell them you’re a practitioner of heterography.
Moon Rising Rocky Cliff
The convoluted bedding of the Hell Creek Formation Sandstone bedding in the foreground is a long way from the moon. The same moon was peering down over it’s deposition here on the Cretaceous piedmont existing 66 million years ago. Similar to a tropical North Carolina with Mountains to our west Paleo-geographically BEFORE the Bighorn Uplift. Those mountains were eroded away prior to the Larimide Orogeny Mountain Building episode. Those mountains all turned to sand grains I stand on. That moon back then was a little closer and bigger however. Dinosaurs looked up and watched it loom bigger over head (for another post). Our ranch is covered by this Formation at the surface. A known dinosaur bone deposit is about 1/2 mile distant from this spot.
Paleontological Musings: A series of MAJOR Rivers flowed around here in the Late Cretaceous. Some certainly as big as the Missouri River swept back and forth across the landscape. Leaving behind sand but snaking back and forth meandering on a surface it can’t cut down into. Shuffling and reshuffling the sands. Several times a fossil dinosaur tooth were excavated. Only to be redeposited dozens of times. Over the 3 million years this particular sand conveyor belt sedimentary system survived. Leaving about 700 feet of sands. This is literally sandstone country. We have more sand that most public beaches lol.
Upon the Ancient river dropping it’s load. When something else heavy covered it. Sediments flow like plastic. Pushed around underground like silly putty under your boot and a hard place. We get all sorts of various sandstone creations by mother nature occur in this country. Hydraulically reworked soft sediment deformation is a common occurrence. Boulders are left behind. The softer sands around them are blown or washed away. Those boulders were hardened. Cementing minerals in ground water responsible. That passing through the sands. The boulders cemented obviously better/harder than the sand that blew away exposing them. These sands moving down river to the “sink” filled up the Cretaceous Interior Seaway over time. Then the asteroid slammed into Mexico……..
I only get to play with a low full moon with the sun still up one or two times a month assuming the weather cooperates. Here the sun had just been obscured by a low cloud bank as it was setting. Low light makes this close/far perspective much more difficult to obtain. Of course the really hard part here is getting something like this close chunk of ancient river bed in focus. In focus at “infinity” along with the moon in the background that looks very large rising over this ridgeline. I’m shooting at least 400 yards away ( almost 1/4 mile) from that pile of rocks. Distance is your friend when attempting this type of composition.
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming / Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
Title: Moon Rising Rocky Cliff
This week's final word is geratology, which comes from Greek gerat- (old age) + -logy (study). Earliest documented use: 1884.
Still not enough words for you? See the rest from this week's theme and more at: wordsmith.org/words/geratology.html
The final word in this week's theme "Words to describe people" is precocious. From Latin praecox (premature, early ripening), praecoquere (to ripen early), from prae- (pre) + coquere (to cook or ripen). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pekw- (to cook or ripen), which is also the source of cook, cuisine, kitchen, kiln, biscuit, apricot (an early-ripening peach, literally speaking), pumpkin, and Hindi pakka (ripened, cooked). Earliest documented use: 1650.
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The final word this week is ironclad. From iron, from Old English iren + clad (clothed), from Old English clathod. Earliest documented use: 1752.
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The final word in this week's theme of "Eponyms from fiction" is rodomont, named after Rodomonte, the boastful king in Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Boiardo & the sequel Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Earliest documented use: 1592. (A related word is rodomontade).
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The final word in this week's theme of "adjectives usedpostpositively" is laureate, which comes from Latin laureatus (crownedwith laurel), from laurea (crown of laurel), feminine of laureus (of laurel),from laurus (laurel).
In ancient Greece, a wreath or a crown of laurel sprigs was usedto honor people. The word baccalaureate as a synonym for bachelor’s degree wasformed from the alteration of Latin baccalarius to conform to bacca lauri(laurel berry).
Learn more, and see the rest of this week's words at: wordsmith.org/words/laureate.html
The final word in this week's theme of "Words coined after days of the week" is girl Friday, which is patterned after man Friday in Daniel Defoe's novel "Robinson Crusoe".
Check out the rest of this week's words at: wordsmith.org/words/girl_friday.html
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