Word or Words of the Day and Discussion

[taxlady]

Are you kidding? I can't even read that slowly one time through! Does the doctor graduate with that degree even if he can't pronounce it?

That's why it's abbreviated ENT.

 

[purple.alien.giraffe]

say this one fast three times:

otorhinolaryngology:
(medicine) The study of diseases of the ear, nose and throat.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/otorhinolaryngology>

Oto-rhino-laryng-ology. Look for the base words and it's a bit easier. Still would take practice to get it to roll off the tongue but at least it becomes doable.

 

[tinlizzie]

Some lucky girl got her Dad's teaching gene . . .

 

[PrincessFiona60]

Oto-rhino-laryng-ology. Look for the base words and it's a bit easier. Still would take practice to get it to roll off the tongue but at least it becomes doable.

It was a good thing I had 4 years of nursing school...took me that long to spell and pronounce "sphygmomanometer".

 

[PrincessFiona60]

eat crow:
(chiefly US, idiomatic) To recognize that one has been shown to be
mistaken or outdone, especially by admitting that one has made a
humiliating error.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eat_crow>

 

[purple.alien.giraffe]

Some lucky girl got her Dad's teaching gene . . .

It helps that dad and various science teachers along the way taught me tricks for reading long words. It's actually easier with science jargon than with other long words because they are mostly compound words. Other words that are just long are much more difficult (for me at least).

 

[PrincessFiona60]

wry:
1. Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
2. Dryly humorous; sardonic or ironic.
3. Twisted, bent, crooked.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wry>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

jape:
(intransitive) To jest; play tricks; joke; jeer.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jape>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

prosopagnosia:
A form of visual agnosia characterised by difficulty with face
recognition despite intact low-level visual processing.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prosopagnosia>

 

[purple.alien.giraffe]

prosopagnosia:
A form of visual agnosia characterised by difficulty with face
recognition despite intact low-level visual processing.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prosopagnosia>

I have a friend with this. She spent years hiding it because she was affraid people would be offended that she doesn't recognise most people until they speak. Fortunately when she finally told everyone people were very supportive and told her to stop worrying about something she couldn't control.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

I have a friend with this. She spent years hiding it because she was affraid people would be offended that she doesn't recognise most people until they speak. Fortunately when she finally told everyone people were very supportive and told her to stop worrying about something she couldn't control.

That would be dreadful to have. I'm glad your friend was able to get support from her friends.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

roundabout:
Indirect, circuitous or circumlocutionary; that does not do something in
a direct way.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roundabout>

 

[taxlady]

I saw the word "roundabout" and this is what I thought of:

Noun

roundabout (plural roundabouts)

1. (chiefly UK, New Zealand and Australia) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island

 

[PrincessFiona60]

I saw the word "roundabout" and this is what I thought of:

Noun

roundabout (plural roundabouts)

1. (chiefly UK, New Zealand and Australia) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island

Me too and how I try to avoid them...they do slow traffic down in neighborhoods, simply because folks don't what to do.

 

[Addie]

We have them here in Mass. all over the place. You have to "yield" to the person in the rotary, as we call them.

One day my daughter and I were in a rotary, and there was a bad case of "road rage" going on, on the other side because one driver didn't yield to the one in the rotary. We got the heck away from there fast. And so did a lot of other drivers. We had to go up a road we weren't intending to go to, but as the saying goes, "better safe than sorry." The rage was bad enough that we heard the sirens coming.


In the new test handbook for new drivers there is a rather large chapter covering rotaries. Or roundabouts as you folks call them.

 

[taxlady]

I've heard the term rotary before. I know it's used in Halifax, NS. We also use the term "traffic circle".

 

[Addie]

The biggest one I have ever seen had six roads leading into it. There is one in Everett that services a very large mall. Now that one is the biggest one. Two for the mall, entrance and exit, one for Route 16, E&E, one road for the mall across from the mall for the appliance store E&E, and one to get you back to the right road if you missed the one you wanted, E&E. That makes eight. After you have driven on it a couple of times, you get used to it. It is less than ten years old.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

I've heard the term rotary before. I know it's used in Halifax, NS. We also use the term "traffic circle".

I can't say what I call them here...

 

[taxlady]

PF,

Addie, the biggest roundabout that I have seen is the one around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 12 streets! The biggest one I have negotiated isn't a roundabout anymore. It was in Copenhagen and seven streets and a streetcar line crossing it. I rode that one on a bicycle.

Here, most of our roundabouts have traffic lights or stop signs. Not far from where I live, there's a little one with only three streets and it has three stop signs.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

lek:
(biology) An aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship
and display.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lek>