My word for today

[jack_ryder]

(It pays to increase my word power - I'm trying to make a conscious effort now to look up words I don't understand as soon as I come across them)

Autochthonic - adj : originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan" [syn: autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous]

(from: Dictionary.Reference.Com)

Comments

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

Have you checked out dictionary_wotd?

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

I have that feed attached to bloglines. What I'll list on my lj are words I've come across in articles or stories that I don't recognise.

I really should put in an example of usage just to aid my comprehension - for example: John Howard demonstrated his party's authochthonic disdain for human rights.

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

I'm reading Stephen Donaldson at the mo, so various examples are coming to light. Abysm being one I remember from last night.

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

according to the definition, it's only "abyss" with one letter changed. Way to go Donaldson!

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

Hew, yts serioum ary yiu klow!

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

My goodness, that's just so deep I can barely understand it, must be art.

(and I'm ashamed of how long it took me to decipher it)

Still, Donaldson did make his main character a cripple before it became fashionable in real literature, so it must be art!

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

can't even get the damn word right, autochthonic disdain for human rights.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

And I just use the Oxford.