Wondrous Words Wednesday
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These are my final words from ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE by Gail Honeyman.
1. rhotic – “I rather liked saying his name, the rhotic trill at the start.”
Rhotic means relating to or denoting a dialect or variety of English, e.g., Midwestern American English, in which r is pronounced before a consonant and at the ends of words.
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2. recondite – “Even the most recondite items (set squares; butterfly pins; treasury tags: what were these for?) were permitted, and this booty was then zipped into a large, handsome pencil case which was mine, mine, mine.”
Recondite means little known.
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What words do you want to celebrate today?
I like the second word
Both are new to me!!!
0 for 2. BUT, I at least recognized recondite.
I really never know how to use any of these words. My bad!
I understand and have heard rhotic. I didn’t realize there was a special word for it.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the word recondite.
I remembered ‘recondite’, but rhotic is new to me. 🙂
Both new words for me.
I didn’t know either of these two words. I’m still trying to figure out what a rhotic word would sounds like.