The word for today is… refectory (noun) – A room where meals are served, especially in a college or other institution. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : “Dining hall,” especially one in a monastery, early 15th century, from Medieval Latin refectorium, from past participle stem of reficere “to remake, restore,” from re-
The Police in Hawkes Bay must have been taking lessons in marching backwards from the French. Their top cop has raised the white flag and said that policing gangs is beyond their means. Her local MP and Police Minister, Stuart Nash, surely must be holding his embarrassed head in his
The word for today is… respite (noun) – 1. A usually short period of rest or relief. 2. (Law) (a) Temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence. (b) Forbearance or delay, as granted in the payment of a debt. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Respite is first known to have
The word for today is… undulate (verb) – 1. To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion. 2. To have a wavelike appearance or form. 3. To increase and decrease in volume or pitch. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Undulate and inundate are word cousins that branch from unda,
If there’s one thing that stands out about transgender activists*, it’s that they have an unhealthy obsession with children. If it’s not 10-year old “drag kids” performing for money in gay bars, it’s “gender whisperers” in schools. Or creepy transgender activists lobbying for underage topless
When the legacy media ‘reported’ on the suicide of a young gay man, bullied to death by intolerant trans activists and their odious ‘allies’, they deliberately left out a few key details. After all, the legacy media narrative, as dictated to them by the ‘rainbow’ lobby, is that Wilson Gavin
The word for today is… pedagogical (adj) – 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of pedagogy. 2. Characterised by pedantic formality. pedagogy (noun) – 1. The art or profession of teaching. 2. Preparatory training or instruction. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Pedagogical, which has the somewhat less common variant form pedagogic, was
Details of the heist of guns from the Palmerston North Police station have been revealed in court today and what an eye-opener it has been: When two officers pointed their pistols at a man high on P stealing guns from the Palmerston North police station, the thief took no
I wouldn’t say that there is no such thing as racism any more, but I really do think there is much less of it than there used to be. Racism originally grew out of a fear of the unknown; of strangers coming to your village to steal your food
The word for today is… mutt (noun) – 1. A mongrel dog. 2. A stupid person; a dolt. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Mutt can now be used with either affection or disdain to refer to a dog that is not purebred, but in the word’s early history, in the
Leah Shaffer www.sapiens.org. In January 2016, Cathryn Townsend set out to live among “the loveless people.” So named by anthropologist Colin Turnbull, the Ik are a tribe of some 11,600 hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers living in an arid and harsh mountainous region of Uganda. Turnbull studied
JoNel Aleccia Kaiser Health News Kathy Brandt, a hospice industry leader who turned her own terminal cancer diagnosis into a public conversation about choices at the end of life, died Aug. 4. She was 54. Brandt’s death was announced on social media by her wife and partner of 18
Anna Maria Barry-Jester Kaiser Health News OAKLAND, Calif. — It’s 5 a.m., and the thermostat reads 44 degrees. Cars round the bend of an off-ramp of state Route 24 in northern Oakland, spraying bands of light across Norm Ciha and his neighbours. They wear headlamps so they
The NZ Herald touts their premium service as the best journalism there is. They say their premium content is “First-class content from leading global publishers”. Yet a real-life example of this was shown on Friday to be little more than David Fisher doing what he does best: interviewing
Derek Fowlds dead: Yes, Prime Minister and Basil Brush star dies aged 82 standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/derek-fowlds-death
The word for today is… mot juste (noun) – Exactly the right word or expression. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : English was apparently unable to come up with its own mot juste to refer to a word or phrase that expresses exactly what the writer or speaker is trying to say,
