Word Of The Day

[Acido]

My word of the day Alto is BURNSLEY. Its one of my favourite words on Footymad and I think we should all use/post it more often. And spare a thought for its poorer brother BARNLEY, nobody likes that do they.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

FFS Acido don't confuse the BBC anymore? I can just imagine their reaction to a third round FA Cup draw, "Sean Dyche's Burnsley have an attractive home draw at Turf Moor to long time Yorkshire rivals Barnley".

[Acido]

FFS Acido don't confuse the BBC anymore? I can just imagine their reaction to a third round FA Cup draw, "Sean Dyche's Burnsley have an attractive home draw at Turf Moor to long time Yorkshire rivals Barnley".

Exactly Bedders!
But I like the following headline better... "Sean Dyche's Barnley go out of the Fa Cup in a replay away at Champship side Burnsley."
There you see, thats got a better ring to it hasnt it lol.

[Altobelli]

Yorkshire rivals Barnley".

Barnley is in yarkshur ?

[Altobelli]

LATITUDINARIAN adjective (lat-tood-n-air-ee-uh n, -tyood)

adjective
1. allowing or characterized by latitude in opinion or conduct, especially in religious views.
noun
1. a person who is latitudinarian in opinion or conduct.
2. Anglican Church. one of the churchmen in the 17th century who maintained the wisdom of the episcopal form of government and ritual but denied its divine origin and authority.

Quotes
It was a Theism broad and simple enough to include everything and signify nothing. Why, then, should Gokal, who was notoriously latitudinarian, take on quite so grave an air?
--*Leo Hamilton Myers,*The Root and the Flower, 1935

But, in America, our morals were, and long have been, separated into three great and very distinct classes; viz. New England, or puritan-morals; middle colonies, or liberal morals; and southern colonies, or latitudinarian morals.
--*James Fenimore Cooper,*Satanstoe, 1845


Origin

Latitudinarian, derived from Latin latitūdō “breadth, latitude,” reached its peak of usage in the mid-19th century. It was associated with the controversies of the so-called “Broad Church” of the Church of England, in opposition to the High Church (Anglo-Catholicism, the Oxford movement) and the Low Church (evangelical). In modern usage latitudinarian has been replaced by liberal. Latitudinarian entered English in the 17th century.

[Altobelli]

JAMMY adjective (jam-ee)

adjective

1. British Informal. very lucky.
2. British Informal. pleasant; easy; desirable: He has a jammy job.

Quotes
At five to, I pulled into Charlotte Street and was jammy enough to find a vacant meter right outside the back door.
--*Paul Brandon,*Swim the Moon, 2001

They were only a floor up, and they had been able to get out a different way from the one they came in, a route they hadn't planned or checked. They might not be so jammy in the future.
--*Christopher Brookmyre,*Country of the Blind, 1997


Origin

Jammy entered English in the mid-1800s. It is related to the idioms to have jam on it “to have something easy,” real jam or pure jam, “something easy or pleasant.”

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Jammy, we ain't!

[Altobelli]

GREEN-COLLAR adjective (green-kol-er)

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to workers, jobs, or businesses that are involved in protecting the environment or solving environmental problems.
noun
1. a green-collar worker. Also, green collar.

Quotes

At a time when private sector money is flowing into cleantech at record pace, the only thing the three remaining presidential candidates can agree on is the need for the government to invest in green-collar jobs to revive the economy, ensure national security, and clean up the environment.
--*"Daniel Gross: Bernanke's Plan to Stop the Next Economic Bubble," Newsweek, May 20, 2008

The panel ... focused on how the public sector can create "green-collar" jobs such as installing solar panels and retrofitting inefficient buildings ....
--*Michael Burnham,*"Author-activist tapped as White House 'green' jobs adviser," New York Times, March 10, 2009


Origin

Green-collar entered English in the early 1990s. It’s based on the model of blue-collar and white-collar, with the green element coming from the sense “environmentally sound or beneficial.”

[Altobelli]

LACUNA noun (luh-kyoo-nuh)

noun

1. a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.
2. Anatomy. one of the numerous minute cavities in the substance of bone, supposed to contain nucleate cells.
3. Botany. an air space in the cellular tissue of plants.

Quotes

This book was written with the aim of filling what appeared to me to be nothing less than an astonishing lacuna in Heidegger scholarship.
--*Bret W. Davis,*Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit, 2007

Jahan waited for a thunder that didn't come. It was in that lacuna, as he was expecting something to happen, that an idea rushed through his head.
--*Elif Shafak,*The Architect's Apprentice, 2014


Origin

In Latin lacūna means “ditch, pit, gap, deficiency, hole, hole where water collects.” The modern French lagune “lagoon,” Italian laguna “lagoon,” and Spanish laguna “lagoon, gap” are obvious developments from lacūna. Lacūna in turn is a derivative of lacus “basin, tub, cistern, pond, lake,” the source (through Old French) of the English lake. Latin lacus is also related to Scots Gaelic and Irish loch. Lacuna entered English in the 17th century.

[Altobelli]

SYNESTHESIA noun (sin-uh s-thee-zhuh, -zhee-uh, -zee-uh)

noun
1. a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color.

Quotes
Edward's inherited synesthesia was consistent and stable throughout his lifetime. His took a standard form: seeing numbers as colors.
--*Richard Powers,*The Echo Maker, 2006

Baudelaire and Rimbaud wrote poems about synesthesia. Kandinsky wrote about it and perhaps used it in his art. By the middle of the twentieth century, synesthesia was still present, of course--Nabokov was describing his colored graphemes and putting them to dazzling use in his anagrammatic wordplay.
--*Rachel Riederer,*"Uncommon Sense," Tin House, Volume 13, Number 3, Spring 2012


Origin

Synesthesia is a New Latin construction dating back to the 1890s. It is based on the Greek word aísthēsis “sensation, perception.”