;Posted on 02/19/2014 5:20:36 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, February 19, 2014-- forte
;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".
forte [fawrt, fohrt or for 1, fawr-tey]
noun
1. a person's strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in: I don't know what her forte is, but it's not music. Synonyms: talent, skill, excellence, strength, strong point, specialty, proficiency; knack, bent.
2. the stronger part of a sword blade, between the middle and the hilt (opposed to foible ).
3. A musical direction meaning “to be performed loudly”; the opposite of piano.
Pronunciation note:
In the sense of a person's strong suit ( He draws well, but sculpture is his real forte ), the older and historical pronunciation of forte is the one-syllable [fawrt] or [fohrt] pronounced as the English word fort. The word is derived from the French word fort, meaning “strong.” A two-syllable pronunciation [fawr-tey] is increasingly heard, especially from younger educated speakers, perhaps owing to confusion with the musical term forte, pronounced in English as [fawr-tey] and in Italian as [fawr-te]. Both the one- and two-syllable pronunciations of forte are now considered standard.
Origin: 1715–25; < Italian < Latin fortis strong
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.
It looks as if we’ll finally get some of the huge piles of snow to start melting. Wake up and smell the coffee—and hand in your homework.
there were a few small patches of green visible on my front lawn yesterday, hopefully they will spread today since we will again have temps in upper 50s.
Yeah, and everything is going to freeze up into an icy mess in my driveway tonight.
awww you are such a gloomy gus! there were birds chirping outside this AM when i came in!
Our department’s downfall was a lack of subject matter experts whose forte involved our storage systems.
My daughter in law’s forte is being a great wife and mother. They just got their power restored in South Carolina after a SEVEN day outage and she spent all day washing clothes and cleaning up after her husband and 5 children. My son has all of the broken limbs and downed trees to clean up in the yard. And htey had an earthquake in addition.
I slipped and fell there this morning as I was getting my newspaper. So that ruined my mood.
You're the firstest with the mostest!
Yeah, and everything is going to freeze up into an icy mess in my driveway tonight.
Somebody's glass is half-empty. :)
A++
North and south are having a horrible winter. And California has no water.
i have heard that Varlamov, who’s forte is woman-beating, was pulled from net by the Russkies, and they are down 3-1 to the fins.
I saw the 3-1 score on Twitter.
This could be good motivation for Malkin (or Ovie) to win the Stanley Cup this year.
you would think, but who knows! they need to be blaring SHAYBU SHAYBU on the loudspeakers over there to motivate them, LOL!
Those kids range from 1-16 and she kept them entertained for 7 days with board games and a mini DVD (I guess it was battery powered.) My son cooked on the camp stove. But theycouldn’t even go outside for days because of falling tree branches done in by ice. One of the branches came right through the roof of their 3 season room.
Pouty Pooty Poot
i am so sorry that i must kill you, comrades...
I’m sure Ukraine is adding to his worries.
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