Doesn’t supermundane sound soooo boring? Actually it means out of this world or superior to earthly things. And that makes it jolly difficult to illustrate.
Wednesday word of the week
Wednesday word of the week – Guddle
I’ve been adding a few Scottish words to my vocabulary during my travels. Guddle means a mess and/or a complex and confusing situation.
A guddle is also a type of fish which can be caught by guddling. The guddling is done with bare hands so quite messy and the word apparently derives from making a mess around water – which is handy for me, as have plenty of photos of various watery subjects in Scotland.
Wednesday word of the week – Correctitude
Correctitude means correctness and especially concise correctness of conduct. That’s a pleasingly alliterative phrase, but not somehing I feel able to demonstrate photographically. Or at all.
Oh look – a squirrel!
Wednesday word of the week – forging
Forging can mean creating something strong and enduring – to forge a career, legacy or relationship, for example. The encouragement of my grandparents forged my love of gardening. If you forge ahead, you’re taking the lead or making good progress.
Forging can be to make an object from metal by heating and shaping it. A forged banknote is a forgery (fake, fraudulent copy) created by a forger.
You could help me forge my reputation as a writer by reading one of my books and then telling others about it, in person or via a review. As well as buying them online, you can read ythrough kindle unlimited, order at your local bookshop, or request them at your library (ebooks as well as paperbacks now).
Wednesday word of the week – sultana
I’m sure you’re aware that a sultana is a dried seedless raisin type thing and absolutely delicious when included in sticky buns which have been toasted and spread generously with butter and… Sorry, got distracted for a moment there.
Wednesday Word Of The Week – apochromatic
An apochromatic lens is one which reduces spherical and chromatic aberrations. (The first part is where stuff looks a weird shape in the photo despite being fine in reality and the other bit is that weird purple haze you sometimes see round the edges of photographic subjects.)
Wednesday word of the week – Chalaza
You know how you’re aware a thing exists, but it had never occurred to you there was a specific word for it? (Or is that just me?) Well, those little strandy bits in an egg, which join the yolk to the ends of the egg, inside the shell, are known as chalaza.
Wednesday word of the week – Abiogenesis
Abiogenesis is the formation of living organisms from non-living substances. It sounds an unlikely thing to happen, but unless it was created from nothing at all, then this must be how life started on Earth. Unless it was brought here by aliens, in which case abiogenesis must have occurred on whichever planet they came from.
Oh, and the spontaneous generation of living forms is also called abiogenesis. Gosh, who’d have thought that explaining the creation of life would be complicated?
Here’s a fluffy, baby living organism. If you don’t know how babies are created, ask strangers on the bus. You’ll be sure to get a seat to yourself.
Wednesday word of the week – Lactiferous
If something (or I suppose someone) is lactiferous, then they’re producing milk, or a milk like fluid. That makes sense as ‘lacto’ refers to milk and ‘ferous’ implies having or forming.
Euphorbias can probably be described as lactiferous as the sap of these plants looks very like milk. Don’t go drinking it though, as it’s a strong irritant.
Wednesday word of the week – Perilymph
I spotted today’s word whilst looking up last week’s. Perilymph is the liquid inside your ear which sloshes about and makes you dizzy if you spin round really fast. (Come on, I never actually said these posts wold be useful, did I?)