This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
thinko
besaiel
apophenia
anacoluthon
delphinestrian



This week’s comments
AWADmail 901

Next week’s theme
Pessimists and optimists from fiction who became words

---

A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(del-fi-NES-tree-uhn)

MEANING:

noun: A dolphin rider.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin delphinus (dolphin), on the pattern of equestrian. Earliest documented use: 1820.

NOTES:

If you ever get the urge to ride a dolphin, please leave them alone. Find yourself an inflatable one instead. In general, if you find yourself wanting to do things to any sentient being without their permission, find yourself an inflatable one. Also see, wooden horse.

USAGE:

“A boy venturing to swim farther out than his companions, was met by a dolphin, who after playing about him a little, slipped under him, and taking him on his back, carried him out still farther, to the great terror of the young delphinestrian.”
Leigh Hunt; The Indicator; Joseph Appleyard (London, UK); 1822.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: