Learning something every day...

[fajrdrako]

I foolishly think I have a good vocabulary, but every once in a while I get a shock. The word of the day from the Oxford English Dictionary was 'transpire'. I thought I knew what that meant; I really did. I thought it meant 'to occur, to happen'. Hah! I was wrong. It turns out that this is a misuse. The actually meaning is " To emit or cause to pass in the state of vapour through the walls or surface of a body".

I am shocked and stunned.

The moral: never take any word for granted.

On the plus side, I learned "enantodromia" a week ago and I still remember it.