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Apr 20, 2009
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with Anu GargThere are two times in life when we are most likely to be lost for words: when we're happiest and when we're saddest. For other occasions, we can usually think of a word. With such a large wordstock in its coffers, the English language is at the ready to supply just the right word. Stock up your verbal reserve with these week's words, words that may make you say, "I didn't know there was a word for it!" perendinate
PRONUNCIATION:
(puh-REN-di-nayt)
MEANING:
verb tr. : To put off until the day after tomorrow.verb intr.: To stay at a college for an extended time. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin perendinare (to defer until the day after tomorrow),
from perendie (on the day after tomorrow), from dies (day).
NOTES:
The word procrastinate is from Latin cras (tomorrow). So when you
procrastinate, literally speaking, you are putting something off till
tomorrow. Mark Twain once said, "Never put off until tomorrow what you
can do the day after tomorrow." In other words, why procrastinate when
you can perendinate?
USAGE:
"In Peterhouse the Master and Fellows might not allow a stranger to
perendinate for more than a fortnight unless they were certified
of his moral character and of his ability and willingness to do the
College some notable service."Thomas Alfred Walker; Peterhouse; Hutchinson & Co.; 1906. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In their youth both Herder and Schiller intended to study as surgeons, but Destiny said: "No, there are deeper wounds than those of the body, -- heal the deeper!" and they wrote. -Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)
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