https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1 ... 4781243729The terms ‘left wing’ and ‘right wing’ date from the French Revolution and the seating plans of the French National Assembly. The anti-royalist revolutionaries took seats to the presiding officer’s left, while the aristocratic/more conservative supporters of the king gathered to the right.
https://twitter.com/OED/status/1801494790531362878OED #WordOfTheDay: oligosyllabic, adj. Having few syllables.
https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1 ... 2988237264Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
https://bsky.app/profile/susiedent.bsky ... vehz4ih42jWord of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
https://bsky.app/profile/susiedent.bsky ... xwqytejz2dWord of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.
https://bsky.app/profile/susiedent.bsky ... 562cbjwt2vWord of the Day is a true favourite, as some of you will know.
Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.
https://bsky.app/profile/susiedent.bsky ... 54mhaunh2x‘Queue’ is from the French word with the same spelling (but pronounced as ‘kuh’) meaning an animal’s long tail.
In the 18th and 19th centuries it also referred to a pigtail and was sometimes spelled as ‘cue’, which gave us the name of the long thin rod used in snooker.
https://bsky.app/profile/susiedent.com/ ... p2e36u3k2dWord discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.
https://bsky.app/profile/susiedent.com/ ... 2vtdgrmk2kWord of the day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (19th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
https://bsky.app/profile/susiedent.com/ ... aympxhak2hWord of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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