Todays OED Word of the Day is a phrase:
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"Blood and Thunder"
It must be one of those things where you hear it once and suddenly it's everywhere, because that's a phrase I've seen at least four times at various points in the last few months, and I've hardly ever seen it before.
I remember the first time I ever encountered it, as an explanation of the spoonerised phrase "thud and blunder", and I thought then "If only I had encountered this sooner, I could have alternately amused and irritated the children by using it, but now they're too old and it's too late".
This is the second word of the day this week that I've wanted to post. The other is rusticle. I saw that and, as is my wont, I tried to work out what it might mean before I read ahead. (Well, as is my wont when I actually don't know the word in question. I often already do.) First I thought "Looks like rust + icicle" and then I said "No, that's ridiculous, it's probably related to rustication somehow..." and it turns out my first thought was correct. It's now a few days later and it only now occurs to me that "rustic" is probably a more common word than "rustication".
"Blood and Thunder"
It must be one of those things where you hear it once and suddenly it's everywhere, because that's a phrase I've seen at least four times at various points in the last few months, and I've hardly ever seen it before.
I remember the first time I ever encountered it, as an explanation of the spoonerised phrase "thud and blunder", and I thought then "If only I had encountered this sooner, I could have alternately amused and irritated the children by using it, but now they're too old and it's too late".
This is the second word of the day this week that I've wanted to post. The other is rusticle. I saw that and, as is my wont, I tried to work out what it might mean before I read ahead. (Well, as is my wont when I actually don't know the word in question. I often already do.) First I thought "Looks like rust + icicle" and then I said "No, that's ridiculous, it's probably related to rustication somehow..." and it turns out my first thought was correct. It's now a few days later and it only now occurs to me that "rustic" is probably a more common word than "rustication".
