Yet Another Winning Entry from the Word a Day People February 22, 2008
Posted by carpebanana in : Ramblings , trackbackWe here are deep in the depths of grey February, and, as the Pirates of Penzance Pirate King sings:
For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I’ve no desire to be disloyal,
Some person in authority, I don’t know who, very likely the Astronomer Royal,
Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February, twenty-eight days as a rule are plenty,
One year in every four his days shall be reckoned as nine and-twenty.
And this is that year with nine and-twenty days, all of them grey and bonechilling.
SO ~~
there is nothing to be done about it but rejoice in a new word of the day, which this past week was:
echt
yes, you got it, echt. Sounds like a throat-clearing noise and how appropriate is that for what is so sweetly called “cold and flu season”?
The people at A Word A Day tell us this is an adjective meaning “authentic or typical.”
Well, the snow, ice, and sleet around here is all too echt for me. Echt, echt, echt.
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I know what you mean. February seems soooooo looooonnnnnggg, and it is only 28 days. Maybe the 29th day this year makes it seem interminable.
There is actually a cold and flu season map…It covers most of the U.S.
That is a great quote.