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ab initio
Pronounced: ab-uh-NIH-she-oh, adverb Notes: I didn’t know this phrase, but it made sense Yesterday’s word The word pilcrow is the symbol for paragraph breaks (¶) First usage Our word came into English in the mid-1400s Background / Comments I became used to seeing pilcrows when computers started being used for word processing, so I was…
pilcrow
Pronounced: PILL-kroh, noun Notes: I didn’t know what this was (but it is common these days) Yesterday’s word The word morganatic means “of or relating to a marriage between a royal or noble and a person of inferior rank whose children cannot succeed to royalty or nobility” First usage Our word came into English in…
morganatic
Pronounced: more-guh-NA-tik, adj Notes: I kind of knew this, but not exactly Yesterday’s word The word Baedeker means “a guidebook” First usage Our word came into English in the mid-1800s Background / Comments Our word came from the German publisher Karl Baedeker, who founded a company that published travel guidebooks. His guidebooks were known for…
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