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anacoluthon
Pronounced: a-nuh-kuh-LOO-thahn, noun Notes: Looks like a kind of snake, I thought Yesterday’s word The word sidhe is a fairy the race of fairies a mound or hill where fairies are believed to live First usage Our word came into English in the early 1700s Background / Comments Our word came from the Irish word…
sidhe
Pronounced: shee, noun Notes: I’ve not heard this word Yesterday’s word The word videlicet means “that is to say; namely” First usage Our word came into English in the mid-1400s Background / Comments Our word is abbreviated viz (more later). Our word came from the Latin word videlicet, which is made up of videre (to…
videlicet
Pronounced: vuh-DEH-luh-set (alt: vigh-DEH-luh-set), adverb Notes: Most people know the (surprising) abbreviation of our word Yesterday’s word The word rheology means “the study of the deformation and flow of matter” First usage Our word came into English in the 1920s Background / Comments Our word was coined by Eugene C Bingham, a professor of chemistry,…
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