Word For The Day, Wednesday, November 12, 2014-- scrutate

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Word For The Day, Wednesday, November 12, 2014-- scrutate

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

scrutate [SKRU-tayt]

verb, transitive
To investigate.

Origin: From Latin scrutari (to examine). Earliest documented use: 1882.

USAGE:
"Philosophers have too often thought that they can learn more about human nature by scrutating the murky depths of substance and faculties than by interpreting the obvious evidence." John Lachs; The Relevance of Philosophy to Life; Vanderbilt University Press; 1995.

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

That was funny......”that’s why we need a fourth freezer!”

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Yeah, that’s why I find it odd that blacks from the south say it too....how did that happen?

[xsmommy]

gotta say EYE-EARN sounds gay to me.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I can hear it fine. Anyone else out there who can or can’t hear my Post #76?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Is that because you are in Virginia or did you pronounce it that way near Pittsburgh?

[xsmommy]

I liked when he said about her misplacing her savings card that they were gonna be like THOSE JAGS up front trying to plug in various phone #s trying to remember which one they used.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

They say “ont” for your mother’s sister, but they say “ant” for the tiny insect.

[xsmommy]

I didn’t change my patterns of speech when I moved here, I don’t think. my entire family, here and the Ohioans, say those things the same way.

[xsmommy]

I even checked to make sure I had my sound turned on.

[Billthedrill]

With 0bamacare passed just to see
What its contents would turn out to be
And its policies mutate
Our Congress should scrutate
Said Tate, "Why is it always me?"

[SoothingDave]

I’ll go either way on pecans.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

My husband has worked all over the U.S. at various times - he would keep me laughing at different terms for tools or machinery - in the area of Minnesota and Wisconsin they call the small tractor type equipment a “skidster” - we call it a “bobcat”. Also everytime my husband would say “tower” they thought we was saying “tire” and he does NOT say it that way - but just his accent came across to them as “tire” same with “oil”, they thought he was saying “all”.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I heard it

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Yeah - lol. Just before we left PA they built a giant eagle. I think the locals were just calling it Giant

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I could do so much with that statement, but I will be nice. ;^)

[xsmommy]

JINE_IGGLE

[SoothingDave]

The only thing you had to change was to stop calling it “Virginia ham” and just call it “ham.” ;-)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Haha -

[xsmommy]

Tower/tire would be the same in Pgh, same with POWER, pahr.

[xsmommy]

not sure what Virginia ham is, I never called it that anywhere.