AUM PR https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au Byron Bay & Beyond Sun, 18 Mar 2018 23:02:16 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.5 A to Z – it’s the end of the alphabet https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/z-end-alphabet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=z-end-alphabet https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/z-end-alphabet/#respond Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:48:04 +0000 https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/?p=4516 Verandah Magazine’s last Word of the Week from AUM PR.  How did 26 weeks pass so quickly?  Ziggurats were massive structures built in the...

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Ziggurat

Verandah Magazine’s last Word of the Week from AUM PR.  How did 26 weeks pass so quickly?  Ziggurats were massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau.  Notable ziggurats include the Great Ziggurat of Ur, the Ziggurat of Aqar Quf and the now destroyed Etemenanki in Babylon (which may been the inspiration behind the biblical Tower of Babel).  Well, we’ve built our own Ziggurat of words over the past few months, and it’s been great…watch out for some new great weekly offerings.

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The ewe was yearning to yean https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/ewe-yearning-yean/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ewe-yearning-yean https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/ewe-yearning-yean/#respond Thu, 20 Aug 2015 02:38:56 +0000 https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/?p=4473 Yean is Verandah Magazine’s penultimate Word of the Week from AUM PR, and a good one it is too.  Originally from Middle English, ‘iyenen’...

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Yean is Verandah Magazine’s penultimate Word of the Week from AUM PR, and a good one it is too.  Originally from Middle English, ‘iyenen’ or ‘yenen’ which was from the Old English ‘geeanian’, when sheep or goats ‘yean’, they give birth to their young.  Not an easy word to drop into everyday conversation, but if you happen to know a sheep or goat farmer you can impress them with your esoteric vocabulary.

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The X (Xeric) Files https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/x-xeric-files/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=x-xeric-files https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/x-xeric-files/#respond Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:31:27 +0000 https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/?p=4411 We’re almost at the end of the alphabet, and AUM have found Verandah Magazine a word that we are definitely filing for future use...

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Xeric[1]We’re almost at the end of the alphabet, and AUM have found Verandah Magazine a word that we are definitely filing for future use in scrabble games.  Xeric comes from the Greek word xeros – meaning dry, and has since come to mean something adjusted to dry conditions – so not those of us who live in the humidity of the Northern Rivers.

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Little thin tiny ones, ones that squiggle and squirm… https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/little-thin-tiny-ones-ones-squiggle-squirm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=little-thin-tiny-ones-ones-squiggle-squirm https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/little-thin-tiny-ones-ones-squiggle-squirm/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:19:57 +0000 https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/?p=4341 Vermicular, our Word of the Week from AUM PR is from the latin vermiculus, a dimunitive of vermis – worm.  Over the centuries it’s...

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Vermicular[1]Vermicular, our Word of the Week from AUM PR is from the latin vermiculus, a dimunitive of vermis – worm.  Over the centuries it’s come to mean, having the shape of a worm, as in vermiform, having way markings shaped like worms; vermiculate; moving like a worm or caused by or relating to worms.  It’s altogether somewhat wormy..

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And I’d howl at your beauty like a dog in heat… https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/id-howl-beauty-like-dog-heat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=id-howl-beauty-like-dog-heat https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/id-howl-beauty-like-dog-heat/#respond Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:49:45 +0000 https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/?p=4270 Verandah Magazine’s ‘U’ word from AUM PR, is a a somewhat sad one this week.  The word ululation is derived from Latin, and it’s...

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Ululate

Verandah Magazine’s ‘U’ word from AUM PR, is a a somewhat sad one this week.  The word ululation is derived from Latin, and it’s the sound that’s produced when the tongue is moved rapidly back and form in the mouth while someone is sobbing.  We’ve all heard babies do it, but anybody in full lament is likely to ululate.  When Leonard Cohen wrote ‘I’d howl at your beauty like a dog in heat, and I’d claw at your heart, and I’d tear at your sheet,’ he pretty much summed up ululation.  But then, he is ‘our’ man…

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Wait on – those fibres are behaving in a transilient way https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/wait-fibres-behaving-transilient-way/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wait-fibres-behaving-transilient-way https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/wait-fibres-behaving-transilient-way/#respond Wed, 15 Jul 2015 23:49:13 +0000 https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/?p=4220 Verandah Magazine’s Word of the Week this week comes from the Latin, transilient, and translates as jumping across or passing over.  Although our friends...

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Verandah Magazine’s Word of the Week this week comes from the Latin, transilient, and translates as jumping across or passing over.  Although our friends at AUM PR, love the idea of a hammock – the word is often used in a medical context, for example:  The transilience of the cortical association fibres that pass between nonadjacent convolutions of the brain.  Right, well that’s clear then.

 

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Shhhhh, it’s a susurration of sparrows… https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/shhhhh-susurration-sparrows/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shhhhh-susurration-sparrows https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/shhhhh-susurration-sparrows/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:18:32 +0000 https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/?p=4183 Latin.  Greek. Lithuanian, German, Old Church Slavonic, Sanskrit – susurration’s been with us since the early 1400’s – originally from the Latin susurrationem, and...

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Susurration

Latin.  Greek. Lithuanian, German, Old Church Slavonic, Sanskrit – susurration’s been with us since the early 1400’s – originally from the Latin susurrationem, and meaning as our friends at AUM PR tell us here at Verandah Magazine, a whisper or a murmer.  Shhhhh I can’t hear the susurration of the trees…
‘His own name, pronounced in the utmost compression of susurration, they say, he catches at a quarter furlong interval.’ – Charles Lamb
‘If he had read his Biffin he would have known that the correct terms are a ” susurration of sparrows” and a “pop of weasels.”‘ Punch – or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 9, 1914
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Quiddity’s an oddity and no quibbling about that https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/quidditys-oddity-quibbling/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=quidditys-oddity-quibbling https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/quidditys-oddity-quibbling/#respond Fri, 26 Jun 2015 08:38:30 +0000 https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/?p=4061 Quiddity has absolutely nothing to do with ‘quidditch’, the wizardly sport played on broomsticks in the Harry Potter universe.  Quiddity, Verandah Magazine’s Word of...

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QUIDDITYQuiddity has absolutely nothing to do with ‘quidditch’, the wizardly sport played on broomsticks in the Harry Potter universe.  Quiddity, Verandah Magazine’s Word of the Week, courtesy of AUM PR,  comes from the Medieval Latin ‘quidditas’, meaning the essence of things.  Or in scholastic philosophy ‘that which distinguishes a thing from other things’ – almost literally, ‘whatness’.  Its second meaning is not quite so philosophical – it’s a subtlety or triviality – a ‘quibbling’ if you will, rather than a ‘quiddling’…

 

 

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He was a most pantagruelian sort of a fellow… https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/pantagruelian-sort-fellow/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pantagruelian-sort-fellow https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/pantagruelian-sort-fellow/#respond Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:00:03 +0000 https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/?p=3960 Verandah Magazine’s Word of the Week this week from AUM PR comes from a character created by Francois Rabelais in his 1534 satirical novel...

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PantagrulianVerandah Magazine’s Word of the Week this week from AUM PR comes from a character created by Francois Rabelais in his 1534 satirical novel – Gargantua and Pantagruel. Pantagruel was a gigantic prince noted for his ironic buffoonery, and the word has come to mean huge, insatiable or voracious.  As an adjective it takes more and most – as in more pantagruelian and most pantagruelian.

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Oh no, uh-oh, it’s that word – ono, onomata – onomatopoeia https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/oh-uh-oh-word-ono-onomata-onomatopoeia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oh-uh-oh-word-ono-onomata-onomatopoeia https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/oh-uh-oh-word-ono-onomata-onomatopoeia/#respond Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:09:20 +0000 https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/?p=3946 At Verandah Magazine we love the sound of onomatopoeia – a word that is derived from the Greek word for name, and phonetically imitates,...

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OnomatopoeiaAt Verandah Magazine we love the sound of onomatopoeia – a word that is derived from the Greek word for name, and phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes, as our friends at AUM PR have described.  In other words, a word that means the imitation of a sound – oink-oink or meow are other good examples.  And get this, of course onomatopeias exist in all languages, but differently, so the sound of a clock may be tick-tock in English, but katchin katchin in Japanese.

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