Posted on 05/13/2009 6:04:45 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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".
calamari \kah-luh-MAHR-ee\ noun
squid used as food
Example sentence:
Ophelia tried fried calamari for the first time from a small seafood shack near the beach.
Did you know?
The word "calamari" was borrowed into English from 17th-century Italian, where it functioned as the plural of "calamaro" or "calamaio." The Italian word, in turn, comes from the Medieval Latin noun "calamarium," meaning "ink pot" or "pen case," and can be ultimately traced back to Latin "calamus," meaning "reed pen." The transition from pens and ink to squid is not surprising, given the inky substance that a squid ejects and the long tapered shape of the squid's body. English speakers have also adopted "calamus" itself as a word referring to both a reed pen and to a number of plants.
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.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
You forget I didn't spend my entire childhood in Alabama. I spent a year in Japan and 3 years in the UK. Where do you think I learned to love meat pies
and Spotted Dick?
i think it’s something to kind of break up the giraffe-ish neck she’s got going on.
IMO, fresh bluefin tuna (fresh to where it's never even seen the inside of a fridge!) is the absolute BEST! I like it better than any meat or other seafood.
I can understand Mary wanting to send her children to a private school, but CarVILE? Who would have thought he would be such a hypocrite? ;-)
Looked more like spotted balls to me.
never had the cz thing. My paternal grandpa was Polish, the grams were ukrainian and lithuanian and they weren’t into duck murder. i try not to think of you and the variegated genitalia.
You should see a doctor for that.
He’s a liberal, hypocrite by definition.
Yeah, he's in love with her long legs and she's in love with his money and power.
and i know there are large crawling bugs in those meatpies, you turned the light on before taking that pic so they’d not come out....
"Finest pies in London, missus."
Probably far less than is in your average cylindrical meats.
Yum... I love calamari
HA!!!!
Sort of a fashion illusion, "Dazzle Paint" for the bod? ;^)
Well, whadda y'know.
Makes sense considering the subject, I guess.
Fashion illusion and/or camo notwithstanding, *still* looks like a dog collar. LOL
What the hell is that about?
Calamri - The name given the wind by Jimmy Hendrix.
Druggie you are.
Sissy.
oh, NO they don’t...
I guess you’re not a Harry Potter Fan? The last installment of the Harry Potter series is being filmed currently on location in Wales. A character named Dobby, an elf, is murdered by evil wizards. Dan Radcliffe who plays Harry is the dark-haired young man seen cradling Dobby in the first photo.
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