pet·ri·chor ˈpeˌtrīkôr/ noun a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather. "other than the petrichor emanating from the rapidly drying grass, there was not a trace of evidence that it had rained at all"|
What a great word! What word have you recently learned? What word(s) do you think more people should know?
It seems that song lyrics are full of eggcorns. Excuse me while I kiss this guy. -Hendrix Eggcorn. Hold me closer Tony Danza. -Bernie Taupin Eggcorn.
Especially when listening to Elizabeth "Eggcorn" Frazier and any of her bands. Chick makes Mumbles from Dick Tracy sound like James Earl Jones. An ex and I came up with the game of transcribing Cocteau Twins albums while on roadtrips. I found a piece of cardboard off a box of Fiddle Faddle containing the lyrics chainsaws lend pain Sunflowers, Sinn Fein Let's jump along the dam The donkey can take it Love you cinnabon
I love petrichor. It's up there with "Sussurus" for me in terms of specificity. The last word I learned was "Fliessender" included in the phrase "Allmählich etwas Fliessender." I'm learning an excerpt from Strauss' Ein Heldenleiben for an orchestral audition, and it's on the page just under my excerpt. from the glossary in the back it seems to mean "Gradually Somewhat more Flowing", with "Fliessender" being "Flowing". I think that people should learn to use the words they have more creatively, or at least learn how they've derived from their original definition, "Awesome" being a great example of this. I remember my mom telling me a story about when she was in the hospital recovering after pregnancy in Newfoundland (She's originally from the Prairies), and she was sharing a room with someone from one of the outports, where an older breed of English lingers. They were dining on something (ground beef, or chicken or something) and the Newfoundlander commented "This is a bit fresh, isn't it?" My mom, confused, thought to herself "I hope so!" What the woman meant was that she felt that the meat needed salt, making the connection between fresh and salt water.
If learning the true definition of a word I'd been misusing counts, that would be vector.
It's a good word, here is my first introduction to it: