[BITList] Fwd: A.Word.A.Day--perendinate

[John Feltham]

I like it - I'll have to see if I can start using it in my daily speech!




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From: "Wordsmith" <wsmith at wordsmith.org>
Date: 20 April 2009 4:21:51 PM
To: wulguru.wantok at Gmail.com
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--perendinate

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A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg

There are two times in life when we are most likely to be lost for  
words: when we're happiest and when we're saddest. For other  
occasions, we can usually think of a word. With such a large wordstock  
in its coffers, the English language is at the ready to supply just  
the right word.

Stock up your verbal reserve with these week's words, words that may  
make you say, "I didn't know there was a word for it!"
perendinate


PRONUNCIATION:
(puh-REN-di-nayt)

MEANING:
verb tr. : To put off until the day after tomorrow.
verb intr.: To stay at a college for an extended time.

ETYMOLOGY:
 From Latin perendinare (to defer until the day after tomorrow), from  
perendie (on the day after tomorrow), from dies (day).

NOTES:
The word procrastinate is from Latin cras (tomorrow). So when you  
procrastinate, literally speaking, you are putting something off till  
tomorrow. Mark Twain once said, "Never put off until tomorrow what you  
can do the day after tomorrow." In other words, why procrastinate when  
you can perendinate?

USAGE:
"In Peterhouse the Master and Fellows might not allow a stranger to  
perendinate for more than a fortnight unless they were certified of  
his moral character and of his ability and willingness to do the  
College some notable service."
Thomas Alfred Walker; Peterhouse; Hutchinson & Co.; 1906.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In their youth both Herder and Schiller intended to study as surgeons,  
but Destiny said: "No, there are deeper wounds than those of the body,  
-- heal the deeper!" and they wrote. -Jean Paul Richter, writer  
(1763-1825)

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