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Apr 24, 2023
This week’s themeHomophones This week’s words littoral ocellated aweigh euthanasia rawky 
Literal/Littoral (a poem on sand)
Previous week’s theme Reborrowed words 
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu GargOver the years, we have featured many trans words here. Examples: transect, transpontine, transitive, and transpicuous. Lately, legislatures in many Republican states in the US are busy making laws to make things hard for such words. These words never hurt anyone. They simply go about their lives, but that’s apparently too much for some. We remain intransigent and we’ll feature more in the future. Because. These politicians are probably going to go after homophones next. We have featured such words many times as well. Examples: homologous, homophene, homologate, and rashomon. Again, heterodox that we are, we will continue to feature more such words in the future. In fact, this week we’ll feature a whole week of homophones, words that have the same pronunciation, such as raise and raze. Homophones or heterophones, transitive or intransitive, all words make our world more colorful, more picturesque, and more descriptive. littoral
PRONUNCIATION:
(LIT-uhr-uhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Relating to or situated at the shore. noun: A shore, especially the area between high tide and low tide levels. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin litus (shore). Earliest documented use: 1656.
USAGE:
“This could shift the balance of power within littoral countries. Coastal
Bremen, one of Germany’s poorest states, could gain clout at the expense
of rich but landlocked Bavaria.” Europe’s New Powerhouse; The Economist (London, UK); Jan 7, 2023. “Where to stay insofar as the river itself is the primary attraction, it only makes sense to stay somewhere with a river view. Fortunately, there’s a literal abundance of littoral opportunity.” Marshall S. Berdan; New York’s Thousand Island Blessing; Newsday (Long Island, New York); Jul 28, 2019. See more usage examples of littoral in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
History is all explained by geography. -Robert Penn Warren, novelist and
poet (24 Apr 1905-1989)
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