by friendociate » 11 Mar 2023, 20:17
Christian Science Monitor's 'Culture-section' discusses the words:- Intersectionality
- Root (specifically 'cheering the team to a win,' but it might discuss its other meanings)
- Irony
- Bill (Do you 'Fill it' or 'Fit it'?)
- Loggerhead
- Sentience
- Puma
- Greenwashing
- Watershed
- Light
- Cozy
- Marriage
- Construct
- Ideophone
- Hygge
- Golf
- Compound
- Congratulations (but no single Congratulation)
- Safari
- Conditional
- Wildly (or Widely?)
- Gafol-fisc
- Woolgathering
- Reticence
- Esquire, a title assumed by the ...
- Lawyer
- Juneteenth
- Idiom
- Grooming
- Ukraine's hybrid language Surzhyk
- Begging the Question
- Cockroach
- Cyrillic
- Sanction
- Envy vs. Jealousy
- Next
- Revanchism
- Grammar
- Phonology
- Amelioration
- Stereotype
- Clichés
- Snowclone
- Core
- Game
- Done
- Pareidolia
- Perseverance (possible Word of the Year 2021)
- Spandrel
- Macaronic
- Thwart
- Cinderella
- Meta
- Black Friday
- Neologism (you flurbiggums wouldn't understand
) - Gongoozle
- Hobby
- Gaslighting
- Tongue Twister
- Bootstrap
- Petard
- the Correct Order of Adjective Placement
- Fundamental
- Statute
- Equity vs. Equality
- English is Highly Irregular
- Competition
- Kangaroo Words
- Procrastinate with Otium
- JFK's Claim to be a Jelly Doughnut (as opposed to a 'Meat Sandwich,' I imagine)
- Mistranslations
- Master
- Obstreperous
- Salad
- Kindergarten
- Graduation (with or without the Funny Hats)
- Deprecate or Depreciate?
- Languish (without Anguish?)
- Beef (and why we don't call it "Cow" in the deli/kitchen)
- Sonata
- Fluency
- Life
- Accommodation
- Shanty
- Filibuster
- Kiwi
and I was going to list ALL the words, but that's plenty to start with
The word "Culture" comes from a wordroot that means "to Tend, Guard, Till, Cultivate (see Colony)"---the root of the words "Cultures, Cultured,
Kultur, Acculturation, Agriculture, Apiculture, Aquaculture, Aviculture, Counterculture, Monoculture, Multicultural, Pomiculture, Puericulture, Sericulture, Subculture, Viticulture."
