Posted on 01/30/2014 4:35:16 AM PST by secret garden
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".
quondam (KWON-duhm) adjective
Former; onetime.
Example sentence:
"One of the assumptions Madison and others labored under was that Britain would be too preoccupied with beating Napoleon to pay much attention to its quondam colonies.
--Joyce Appleby; The Washington Post; A Stumbling, Fiery End to War of 1812; May 5, 2013.
Etymology:
From Latin quondam (formerly). Earliest documented use: 1535.
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 Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Historical Linguistics . the disappearance or loss of an unstressed initial vowel or syllable, as in theformation of the word slant from aslant . Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
He looked fairly sheepish last night on Hannity and he said that he really didn’t mean that he would throw the reporter over the balcony. Remember — he’d be a hero to the left if he were a Democrat. Ahem!
too much caffeine tends to upset my stomach, and that combined with sweettarts would make me hurl, LOL! with the ice/water on the door we tend to drink mostly water at home. xsbaby will use one of those sugar free flavorings to use in water to take with her meds. She can’t swallow pills and has to take meds for the migraines, so i crush the pills and put them in a spoonful of yogurt, and she needs something to get that taste out of her mouth. the poor thing was diagnosed with low iron at the checkup a few months back, and the dr wanted me to give her iron. Well iron pills are the size of horse pills, so i found some LIQUID iron which is beyond gross, so she has been taking a shot of that and i put some liquid magnesium in there [the dr suggested magnesium for migraines as well as B2, but i haven’t been to the vit store to look for the B2 yet] I can’t tell her, but i would be vomiting my guts out if i had to ingest half of the stuff she does and TASTE IT.
I thought you were talking about a monster brand three-liter soda. I don’t know why anyone would buy 12 liters of soda at a time unless they wanted to bathe in it.
of course he would, but threatening bodily harm is just ridic. Besides, what moron would not figure he would be asked about those investigations if he made himself available for an interview?
A+ for you and your dog whistle, ROR!
No whining back there!
Just don’t turn your back, lady - I’m a mean shot with a spitball.
A+ for you.
We have The Who blasting here this morning. Tommy, it never gets old.
What you don’t realize, is the reporter, is the little cousin, of 30 year Fox5 news Anchor, Rosanna Scotto.
Oops.
Dipshit thought...awww,It’s NY1 cable. WTF.
Oops. Now its on Fox5...she made a pretty good display...even calling little cuz on the air.
haha! legit called me out!
As am I with a loaded eraser.
Did you just call an engineer math-challenged? What is going on in this room today? Stop it right now.
OMG the drama! it could just as easily been a fat white woman having the identical reaction, and the skinny white b!t$h would just turn her nose up at THAT one, instead of breaking down bawling about how unfair it is to blacks!
never heard of her so wouldn’t matter if i did realize it.
teacher, NNB was being nasty to the soother for no reason /tattletale
Great taste with The Who, by the way....
There is some snark in here today. I blame winter.
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