The word for today is… carp (verb, noun): verb to find fault or complain querulously noun 1 complaint 2 : a large variable Asian soft-finned freshwater cyprinid fish (Cyprinus carpio) of sluggish waters that is often raised for food: any of various related cyprinid fishes (such as the grass carp)
John Curtice University of Strathclyde John Curtice is a Senior Research Fellow at NatCen Social Research, Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde and Research Consultant to the Scottish Centre for Social Research. He is particularly interested in electoral behaviour, electoral systems, and political and social attitudes. The death
The word for today is… postulate (verb, noun): verb 1 : demand, claim 2a : to assume or claim as true, existent, or necessary : depend upon or start from the postulate of b : to assume as a postulate or axiom (as in logic or mathematics) noun 1 : a hypothesis advanced as an
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. The most memorable speech that Queen Elizabeth II ever gave was five years before her coronation. It was delivered in 1947 on a radio broadcast from South Africa, where she was on a royal
The death of Queen Elizabeth II, whom many thought would go on forever, got me searching for a magazine article published in This England marking her fifty years on the throne. The article gave a very good account of the week leading up to the momentous moment she learned of
The word for today is… inscrutable (adjective): : not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Scrutinizing the inscrutable may be futile: even close scrutiny can fail to decipher it. Scrutinizing the scrutable, on the other hand, is likely to yield some understanding. All of these scrut- words have
The word for today is… recidivism (noun): : a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior, especially a relapse into criminal behavior Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The re- in recidivism is the same re- in relapse and return, and like those words recidivism is about going back:
The word for today is… aquiline (adjective): 1 : of, relating to, or resembling an eagle 2 : curving like an eagle’s beak Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Aquiline, from the Latin word meaning “eagle”, is most often used to describe a nose that has a broad curve and is slightly hooked,
Giselle Bastin Flinders University Giselle Bastin has a BA from the University of Adelaide, and a PhD from Flinders University. She is an Associate Professor in English at Flinders University. “Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the
In a 1972 cartoon, graphic novel master Will Eisner satirised the hippy “Underground Comix”, portraying them as a bunch of low-brow, scatological neanderthals, accusing each of other of “Establishment Tendencies”. But, in a corner of the cartoon, one of the drooling Morlocks scrawls, “I have just discovered a horrible
The word for today is… yankee (noun): 1a : a native or inhabitant of New England b : a native or inhabitant of the northern U.S. 2 : a native or inhabitant of the U.S 3: a type headsail on a sailboat with a high-cut clew. A yankee is often
The word for today is… teem (verb): 1a : to become filled to overflowing : abound b : to be present in large quantity 2 obsolete : to become pregnant Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Teem and team are not just homophones, they are also etymological kin. Teem comes from Old English teman or taeman,
The word for today is… apposite (adjective): : highly pertinent or appropriate Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Apposite and opposite sound so much alike that you would expect them to have a common ancestor—and they do: the Latin verb ponere, which means “to place, set.” The prefixes that we see in
The RNZ article “Growing anger over use of moko, mataora in image filters: ‘That’s a mockery’ had me wondering, “When is cultural appropriation not cultural appropriation?” To some, easy access to Maori culture has been touted as a positive, a helping lens to the revitalisation of matauranga Maori. But
The word for today is… mogul (noun): 1 : an Indian Muslim of or descended from one of several conquering groups of Mongol, Turkish, and Persian origin especially : great mogul 2 : a great personage – e.g. Hollywood mogul 3 : a bump in a ski run Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Started by
Sarah Schiffling Liverpool John Moores University Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos Technological University Dublin Dr Sarah Schiffling is a Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and an International Research Fellow with the HUMLOG Institute in Helsinki, Finland. She is also a trustee for the Humanitarian Logistics
