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Sep 30, 2020
This week’s themeWords originating in rivers This week’s words Pactolian Jedburgh justice derwenter palouser scamander
Hobart Town on the river Derwent
Art by convict-artist Alan Carswell, 1821
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with Anu GargDerwenter
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun: An ex-convict.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Derwent, a river in Tasmania. There used to be a convict
settlement on its banks. Earliest documented use: 1853.
USAGE:
“A visitor to the tent of a pair of newlyweds at Forest Creek found the
digger’s wife ... barely sober enough to utter these memorable words,
‘I’m a Derwenter, and I don’t care who knows it.’” Robyn Annear; Nothing But Gold; Text Publishing; 1999. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
No human being is illegal. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (30 Sep
1928-2016)
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