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spuddle
Pronounced: SPUHD-uhl, verb/noun Notes: I don’t know this word, but it looked like a combination of “spud” and “puddle” Yesterday’s phrase The phrase ab initio means “from the beginning” First usage Our phrase came into English in the beginning of the 1600s Background / Comments Our phrase came directly from the Latin phrase ab initio…
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…
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