DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

rapporteur / rap-or-TUHR / noun : 1. Someone appointed by an organization, group, or committee to investigate or monitor an issue, and compile and present the findings.
2. One who is designated to record the deliberations of a meeting.

Notes & Etymology: From the French raportour (reporter).), from rapporter (to bring back, report), from apporter (to bring), from Latin portare (carry). The word rapporteur in French has various other meanings besides a reporter, such as an informer or a tattletale, and a protractor.

Usage: “The United Nations special rapporteur, Raquel Rolnik, listened to it all patiently, occasionally taking notes, nodding encouragement . "
Chris McGreal; UN Meets Homeless Victims of American Property Dream; The Guardian (London, UK); Nov 12, 2009.

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

homologate / huh-MOL-uh-gayt / verb tr : 1. To approve officially. 2. To register a specific model of a motor vehicle to make it eligible to take part in a racing competition.

Notes & Etymology: From the Latin homologare (to agree), from Greek homologein (to agree or allow).

Usage: “Mr. Jimmy Gray said: 'We've major issues which appear to be discussed in the press. Decisions are made and then we're asked to homologate these decisions. "
Labour Group Leader Hits Out; Aberdeen Press & Journal (UK); Jul 9, 2007.

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

refulgent / rih-FUL-juhnt / adjective: 1. shining brightly; radiant; gleaming

Notes & Etymology: From the Latin refulgere, present participle of refulgeō meaning "to flash back, to shine brightly," from re-, "back" + fulgere, "to shine."

Usage: “As soon as people realize in what ways using a wave could render even the most obscure project crystal-clear, Google Wave is the refulgent victor. Does Email need saving, though?"
Max Majewski; Surfing the Google Wave; Neowin.net ; Nov. 9, 2009.

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

chortle / chawr-tl / verb: 1. (used without object) to chuckle gleefully. 2. (used with object) to express with a gleeful chuckle: to chortle one's joy. noun: 3. a gleeful chuckle.

Notes & Etymology: 'O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy." Perhaps Lewis Carroll would chortle a bit himself to find that people are still using the word chortle, which he coined in Through the Looking-Glass, published in 1872. In any case, Carroll had constructed his word well, combining the words chuckle and snort. This type of word is called a blend or a portmanteau word. In Through the Looking-Glass Humpty Dumpty uses portmanteau to describe the word slithy, saying, "It's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word" (the meanings being "lithe" and "slimy").
-"chortle." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. -

Usage: “They socialize, eat, argue, sing and dance, chortle at the risqué gags of cabaret entertainers, try their best to maintain the colony’s aging physical plant, care for ailing spouses and — like most people in their ’80s and ’90s — look death in the face on a daily basis. "
In the Catskills, Holocaust Survivors Forge a Bond; The New York Times; Nov. 11, 2009.

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

acnestis / AK-nist-uhs / noun: 1. The part of the body where one cannot reach to scratch.

Notes & Etymology: From the Greek aknestis (spine), from Ancient Greek knestis (spine, cheese-grater).

Usage: “In what has to be the longest post-election season in living memory, the last five months have felt like an acnestis upon our collective soul..."
A Wish List to Soothe Our Collective Itch; New Straits Times (Malaysia); Aug 5, 2008.

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

misoneism / mis-uh-NEE-izm / noun: 1. A hatred or fear of change or innovation.

Notes & Etymology: From the Italian misoneismo, from Greek miso- (hate) + neos (new). Ultimately from Indo-European root newo- (new) that also gave us new, neo-, neon, novice, novel, novelty, innovate, and renovate.

Usage: “The prevailing attitude was therefore one of extreme conservatism: may I indeed say of misoneism? "
Expanding Trade, Changing Ways of Life-Conclusions; Addis Tribune (Ethiopia);
May 15, 1998.

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

encomium / en-KO-mee-uhm / noun: 1. Glowing praise.

Notes & Etymology: From the Latin encomium, from Greek enkomion, from komos (revel).

Usage: “The speech cheered the faithful no end, as did Sarah Brown's smooth and skilful introduction of her husband. Yet though her encomium went down well with the party, it nauseated many television viewers. "
Ruth Dudley Edwards; Why Mrs Brown Should Have Skipped the Heroics; Irish Independent (Dublin); Oct 4, 2009

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

sophist / SAH-fist / noun: 1. In ancient Greece one specially engaged in the pursuit or communication of knowledge; esp. one who undertook to give instruction in intellectual and ethical matters in return for payment 2. One who is distinguished for learning; a wise or learned man 3. One who makes use of fallacious arguments; reasoning adroitly and speciously rather than soundly.

Notes & Etymology: From the Greek sophistes, from sophizesthai "to become wise or learned," (from sophos "wise, clever,"). In Greece sophistes came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt. Ancient sophists were famous for their clever, specious arguments.

Usage: “The philosophy professor had such a reputation as the campus sophist that his students took to calling him ‘Socrates.’ "
Ann Zawistoski ;Laurence McKinley Gould Library News; January 23, 2006

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

philodox / FIL-uh-doks / noun: 1. Someone who loves his or her own opinion; a dogmatic person.

Notes & Etymology: From the Greek philodoxos, from philo- (love) + doxa (glory, opinion). Ultimately from Indo-European root dek- (to take or accept) that's also the root of words such as paradox, orthodox, doctor, disciple, discipline, doctrine, dogma, decorate, dignity, and disdain.

Usage: “In effect, a philodoxical thinker can become very good and highly skilled at doubting and critiquing maps other than her own. "
Dale Cannon; Newsletter on Teaching in Philosophy (Newark, Delaware); Spring 2001

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

antipodal / an-TIP-uh-duhl / adjective: 1. Situated on the opposite side of the earth (or another body). 2. Diametrically opposite or completely opposite.

Notes & Etymology: Via Latin from Greek antipodes (literally, those having the feet opposite), plural of antipous, from anti- (opposite) + pous (foot). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ped- (foot) which gave us peccadillo (alluding to a stumble or fall), pedal, impeccable, podium, octopus, and impeach.

Usage: “The antipodal views between Stephan and Yanik regarding how to fight against their common enemy makes for the crux of the play. Stephan is headstrong and vocal while Yanik is soft-person, loving, and peaceful, although both fight against the oppression. "
Justice in the Barrel; The Kathmandu Post (Nepal); Feb 2, 2009

The Wedding Gown That Made History

by Helen Zegerman Schwimmer



Lilly Friedman doesn't remember the last name of the woman who designed and sewed the wedding gown she wore when she walked down the aisle over 60 years ago. But the grandmother of seven does recall that when she first told her fiance Ludwig that she had always dreamed of being married in a white gown he realized he had his work cut out for him. For the tall, lanky 21-year-old who had survived hunger, disease and torture this was a different kind of challenge. How was he ever going to find such a dress in the Bergen Belsen Displaced Person's camp where they felt grateful for the clothes on their backs?



Fate would intervene in the guise of a former German pilot who walked into the food distribution center where Ludwig worked, eager to make a trade for his worthless parachute. In exchange for two pounds of coffee beans and a couple of packs of cigarettes Lilly would have her wedding gown.


For two weeks Miriam the seamstress worked under the curious eyes of her fellow DPs, carefully fashioning the six parachute panels into a simple, long sleeved gown with a rolled collar and a fitted waist that tied in the back with a bow. When the dress was completed she sewed the leftover material into a matching shirt for the groom.


A white wedding gown may have seemed like a frivolous request in the surreal environment of the camps, but for Lilly the dress symbolized the innocent, normal life she and her family had once led before the world descended into madness. Lilly and her siblings were raised in a Torah observant home in the small town of Zarica , Czechoslovakia where her father was a melamed, respected and well liked by the young yeshiva students he taught in nearby Irsheva. He and his two sons were marked for extermination immediately upon arriving at Auschwitz. For Lilly and her sisters it was only their first stop on their long journey of persecution, which included Plashof, Neustadt, Gross Rosen and finally Bergen Belsen .



Lilly Friedman and her parachute dress on display in the Bergen Belsen Museum


Four hundred people marched 15 miles in the snow to the town of Celle on January 27, 1946 to attend Lilly and Ludwig's wedding. The town synagogue, damaged and desecrated, had been lovingly renovated by the DPs with the meager materials available to them. When a�Sefer Toraharrived from England they converted an old kitchen cabinet into a makeshift Aron Kodesh.


"My sisters and I lost everything - our parents, our two brothers, our homes. The most important thing was to build a new home." Six months later, Lilly's sister Ilona wore the dress when she married Max Traeger. After that came Cousin Rosie. How many brides wore Lilly's dress? "I stopped counting after 17." With the camps experiencing the highest marriage rate in the world, Lilly's gown was in great demand.

In 1948 when President Harry Truman finally permitted the 100,000 Jews who had been languishing in DP camps since the end of the war to emigrate, the gown accompanied Lilly across the ocean to America. Unable to part with her dress, it lay at the bottom of her bedroom closet for the next 50 years, "not even good enough for a garage sale. I was happy when it found such a good home."


Home was the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington , D.C. When Lily's niece, a volunteer, told museum officials about her aunt's dress, they immediately recognized its historical significance and displayed the gown in a specially designed showcase, guaranteed to preserve it for 500 years.


But Lilly Friedman's dress had one more journey to make. Bergen Belsen, the museum, opened its doors on October 28, 2007. The German government invited Lilly and her sisters to be their guests for the grand opening. They initially declined, but finally traveled to Hanover the following year with their children, their grandchildren and extended families to view the extraordinary exhibit created for the wedding dress made from a parachute. Lilly's family, who were all familiar with the stories about the wedding in Celle , were eager to visit the synagogue. They found the building had been completely renovated and modernized. But when they pulled aside the handsome curtain they were astounded to find that the Aron Kodesh, made from a kitchen cabinet, had remained untouched as a testament to the profound faith of the survivors.


As Lilly stood on the bimah once again she beckoned to her granddaughter, Jackie, to stand beside her where she was once a kallah. "It was an emotional trip. We cried a lot." Two weeks later, the woman who had once stood trembling before the selective eyes of the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele returned home and witnessed the marriage of her granddaughter.

The three Lax sisters - Lilly, Ilona and Eva, who together survived Auschwitz, a forced labor camp, a death march, and Bergen Belsen - have remained close and today live within walking distance of each other in Brooklyn. As mere teenagers, they managed to outwit and outlive a monstrous killing machine, then went on to marry, have children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and were ultimately honored by the country that had earmarked them for extinction. As young brides, they had stood underneath the chuppah and recited the blessings that their ancestors had been saying for thousands of years. In doing so, they chose to honor the legacy of those who had perished by choosing life.

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In Memoriam

In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER


It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian peoples looking the other way!

Now, more than ever, with Iraq, Iran, and others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.

Calcutta House Press Conference

Dear Friends,

This recently came to me from friends at ActionAIDS and Calcutta House. I send it on to you for your consideration and action as a member of the St. Mary's community everyday decisions and actions each of us makes reflect and amplify the moral center of our faith. CVS and Caremark are local, egregious in their activities as described here, and deserve at least our reflection on how our participation with them might shape and influence our everyday world.

Be well.


CVS locked up condoms in communities greatly impacted by HIV/ AIDS
and now,
CVS Denied Medication to people living with AIDS.

Stand with Calcutta House for a Press Conference:
Thursday, September, 24th 1pm
Broad and Girard Sts, Philadelphia

Agencies and non-profits across the area have been hit hard by the state's budget crisis. They have worked out deals and asked for understanding from vendors in order to continue operations and services through difficult times. But CVS Pharmacy did not show understanding and compassion for Calcutta House, a non-profit that provides housing and services for people living with AIDS. CarePlus/ Pharmacare, part of CVS, refused to deliver AIDS medications to Calcutta House because of an outstanding balance of less than $300.

Tell CVS to put Patients Ahead of Profit!
Withholding Medication from People Living with AIDS is unacceptable.
For more information call Danielle - 215 380 1026

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

comstockery / KOM-stok-uh-ree / noun: 1. Overzealous censorship of material considered obscene.

Notes & Etymology: After Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. He crusaded against anything he considered immoral. Nothing escaped his wrath -- even anatomy textbooks for medical students and the draping of mannequins in public view in shop windows were obscene to him. He lobbied for laws against mailing any material that could be perceived as promoting immorality.
He was appointed postal inspector and he seized books, postcards, and other materials by the boatload. He boasted that he had arrested more than 3,000 people and driven more than 15 to suicide. George Bernard Shaw coined the word comstockery after him when he attacked the American production of Shaw's play "Mrs. Warren's Profession".

Usage: “The language and thought police are hardly some Orwellian invention; America has been unusually susceptible to plagues of Comstockery and self-righteous tomfoolery."
Jon Newlin; Well, Shut My Mouth; Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana); Oct 13, 1996

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

arcadian / ahr-KAY-dee-uhn / adjective : Idyllically pastoral: simple, peaceful.
noun: One leading a simple rural life.

Notes & Etymology: From Arcadia, a region of ancient Greece whose residents were believed to have led quiet, unsophisticated lives of peace and happiness.

Usage: “Farms, fields, cottages, what [photographer Kevin G. Malella] calls 'the Arcadian view', are blended with industrial images -- mostly nuclear cooling towers -- to create new landscapes that plop the environmentally hazardous engine of contemporary society into our nostalgically folksy lap."
Bob Hicks; Questioning Art's Rules and Roles; The Oregonian (Portland); Aug 21, 2009.

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

quisquilian / kwis-KWIL-ee-uhn / adjective : 1. Worthless, trifling.

Notes & Etymology: From the Latin word quisquiliae 'rubbish, refuse, junk; odds and ends'.

Usage: “It is painful to attack a writer as young in years and in time spent
working at his craft as Chris Columbus, yet what are we to make of
someone whose credits to date include Reckless, Gremlins, Goonies and
the quisquilian subject under examination here?"
Harlan Ellison and Leonard Maltin; Harlan Ellison's Watching; M Press; 2008

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

megillah / meh-GIL-uh / noun: 1. A long, tedious account .

Notes & Etymology: From the Yiddish megile (scroll), from Hebrew megillah, from galal (to roll).
The term alludes to the length of the text in the Book of Esther which is read in its entirety, twice, during Purim, a Jewish festival.

Usage: “But the obvious challenge was to go through the whole megillah -- to
begin with the Andante in C Major, which Mozart wrote when he was five,
and proceed to the bitter end, the Requiem ."
Alex Ross; The Storm of Style; The New Yorker; Jul 24, 2006

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

diastrophism / dy-AS-truh-fiz-uhm / noun: 1. The process of deformation of the earth's crust that produces continents, mountains, ocean basins, etc.

Notes & Etymology: From the Greek dia- (across) + strophe (turning). Ultimately from the Indo-European root streb(h)- (to wind or turn) that also gave us catastrophe (literally, an overturning) and apostrophe (literally, turning away, referring to the omission of a letter), and boustrophedon.

Usage: “But facing impending disaster is the cost of living in a place blessed by geography and climate, but cursed by the immutable process called diastrophism that lifts mountains, carves coastlines, and moves continents."
Still on Shaky Ground -- 10 Years After Loma Prieta; The San Francisco Chronicle;
Oct 17, 1999.

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

Cantankerous / kan-tang-ker-uhs / adjective: 1. Ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable. 2. Difficult to handle .

Notes & Etymology: From the Middle English word conteckour, meaning troublemaker. A cantankerous person is one who is always upset about something and looking for a fight. One of the most cantankerous fictional characters in the history of Literature is Ebeneezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Usage: “Garland found the kitchen's oven to be quite cantankerous, but he and his fellow cooks eventually managed to get it to produce a halfway decent tray of meat turnovers."
Laurie J. Marks; Earth Logic; May 31, 2005.

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

cacography / kuh-KOG-ruh-fee / noun: 1. Bad handwriting. 2. Incorrect spelling.

Notes & Etymology: From caco- (bad), from Greek kakos (bad) + -graphy (writing). Caco is ultimately from the Indo-European root kakka-/kaka- (to defecate) which also gave us poppycock, cacophony, and cucking stool.

Usage: “They [Nerds Inc.] have taken advantage of cacography in a novel way. ... They registered more than 90 of the most probable misspellings of popular Web addresses afforded by the QWERTY keyboard, for processing by typo.net."
Thomas W. Holcomb Jr.; Nerds Inc. Turns Typos Into On-Line Advertising; The New York Times; Jun 2, 1997.

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

minatory / MIN-uh-tor-ee / adjective : 1. Threatening or menacing.

Notes & Etymology: From the Latin minari (to threaten), from minae (threats). Ultimately from the Indo-European root men- (project) that is also the source of menace, mountain, eminent, promenade, demean, amenable, and mouth.

Usage: “France has seldom assumed a minatory posture towards India, being much less inclined than other major countries to hector, or push and prod in an attempt to influence policy. "
The Statesman (New Delhi, India); Jan 31, 2008.

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

assiduous / uh-SIJ-oo-uhs / adjective : 1. Constant; persistent; industrious.

Notes & Etymology: From the Latin assiduus, from assidere (to attend to, to sit down to), from ad- (toward) + sedere (to sit). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sed- (to sit) that is also the source of sit, chair, saddle, assess, sediment, soot, cathedral, and tetrahedron.

Usage: “The reason for his presence there [a Donald Duck statue in a temple garden] remains a mystery despite the author's most assiduous inquiries. "
Jeff Kingston; Chiang Mai: Thailand's beguiling Rose of the North; The Japan Times (Tokyo); Jun 28, 2009.

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

quietus / kwy-EE-tuhs / noun: 1. A final discharge, as of a duty or debt. 2. Removal from activity; rest; death. 3. Something that serves to suppress, check, or eliminate.

Notes & Etymology: From the Medieval Latin quietus (est), "(it is) at rest" (said of an obligation that has been discharged), from Latin quietus, "at rest."

Usage: “During his final illness, someone asked Schiller how he felt: "calmer and calmer" was the reply. It was a quietus he richly deserved ."
Roger Kimball; "Schiller's 'Aesthetic Education"; New Criterion; March 2001

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

sybaritic / sib-uh-rit-ik / adjective: 1. Devoted to or marked by pleasure and luxury. 2 Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Sybaris or its inhabitants.

Notes & Etymology: From the Latin Sybariticus which is taken from Sybaris a celebrated city of Magna Graecia on the western shore of the Gulf of Taranto. The wealth of the city in the 6th century B.C. was such that the Sybarites became synonymous with pleasure and luxury.

Usage: “With Homer Simpson out of the way, we celebrities can go back to our lives of sybaritic excess."
J. Stewart Burns; The Simpsons “Homerazzi”; 2007

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

defenestration  / dee-fen-uh-strey-shuhn / noun: 1. the act of throwing a thing or esp. a person out of a window
Notes & Etymology: From the Latin fenestra meaning window. A word invented for one incident: the "Defenestration of Prague," May 21, 1618, when two Catholic deputies to the Bohemian national assembly and a secretary were tossed out the window (into a moat) of the castle of Hradshin by Protestant radicals. It marked the start of the Thirty Years War.

Usage: “De Haven's work on survival in defenestrations was instrumental in the development of the seat belt. ."

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

obloquy / OB-luh-kwee / noun: 1. Censure or abusive language towards someone, especially when expressed by many. 2. Disgrace resulting from public condemnation.

Notes & Etymology: From the Latin obloquium (talking against, contradiction), from ob- (against) + loqui (to speak). Ultimately from the Indo-European root tolkw (to speak).

Usage: “[Jimmy Carter] is a man who is prepared to risk the obloquy and criticism of die-hard neocons and nervous fellow senior Democrats to break the chains of Washington's foolish Middle East peace policy."
Carter Mission; Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia); Apr 9, 2008

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

sanguine / SANG-gwin / adjective: 1. Cheerfully optimistic or confident. 2. Having a healthy reddish color. 3. Blood-red.

Notes & Etymology: From the Old French sanguin, from Latin sanguineus (bloody), from sanguis (blood). In medieval physiology with its notion of the four humors or bodily fluids (blood, bile, phlegm, and black bile). The relative proportions of these fluids was thought to determine a person's temperament. If blood was the predominant humor, one had a ruddy face and a disposition marked by courage, hope, and a readiness to fall in love. Such a temperament was called sanguine

Usage: “His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Parasite; 1894

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

noctilucent / nok-tuh-LOO-suhnt / adjective: 1. Shining at night.


Notes & Etymology: From Latin nocti- (night) + lucent (shining).] The term is used especially to describe certain high atmospheric cloud formations visible during summer nights at high latitudes.


Usage: “The noctilucent paint is powerful enough to light up the entire 20-ft
diameter of the pandal without any light bulbs. ”
Sangita Sultania G. Roy; Glow-worm Goddess for Shoestring Budget;
The Telegraph (Calcutta, India); Oct 21, 2004.

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

decuman / DEK-yoo-muhn / adjective: 1. Very large or immense 2. (in ancient Rome) of or pertaining to the tenth cohort of a legion.

Notes & Etymology: From Latin decumanus, variant of decimanus (of the tenth), from decimus (tenth), from decem (ten). The word was often applied to waves from the belief that every tenth wave is greater than the others. The word also referred to the main gate of a military camp in ancient Rome called the decuman gate . This gate faced away from the enemy and the tenth cohort of the legion was stationed there.

Usage: “The lover whose soul shaken is In some decuman billow of bliss. ”
Francis Thompson; The Way of a Maid; c. 1890 .

DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

Laodicean / ley-od-uh-see-uhn / adjective: 1. Indifferent or lukewarm especially in matters of religion. noun; a person who is lukewarm or indifferent, esp. in religion. 2.  A native or inhabitant of Laodicea.

Notes & Etymology: From Laodicea, Syrian city (modern Latakia) whose early Christians were chastised in the Bible for indifference to their religion [Rev. iii.14-16]. This was the winning word for the 82nd annual Scripps National Spelling Bee held last Thursday.

Usage: “A laodicean timorous, hesitant voice, how utterly vile I hold you!”
William Watson; For England: poems written during estrangement‎; 1904.

propinquity

Doug's Word of the Week

(Note: Doug claims that his word offerings are not intended to have any political or cultural subtext whatsoever.)

propinquity / pro-PING-kwi-tee /noun: 1. Nearness in space, time or relationship

Notes & Etymology: From the Middle English propinquite, from the Latin propinquitas (nearness), from prope (near).

Usage: "I believe that ... propinquity of descent, -- the only known cause of the similarity of organic beings, -- is the bond, hidden as it is by various degrees of modification, which is partially revealed to us by our classifications. "

Charles Darwin; On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; 1859.

Use this word in conversation at least twice in the coming week and it's yours forever!