Strait is a body of water, not straight. Preemptively is the correct spelling despite the weird double-e.
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Slightly off topic, but I need to use the term 'water main' right off that bat in my story, but do people generally understand what a water main is?
Slightly off topic, but I need to use the term 'water main' right off that bat in my story, but do people generally understand what a water main is?
You never hear them mentioned otherwise...does a water main actually exist without a break?
Hmmm.... it's that thing that breaks and floods the street & messes up traffic, yeah? You never hear them mentioned otherwise...does a water main actually exist without a break?
Avuncular: kind or friendly, like an uncle.
Reading a novel right now sprinkled with little gems like that. The author's vocabulary is phenomenal.
Me, too. Why stop there? I say, get rid of that uncle part.As an aunt, I object to the lack of the word "avauncular."
Me, too. Why stop there? I say, get rid of that uncle part.
New word: avauntular.
You want my what?
Hmmm.... it's that thing that breaks and floods the street & messes up traffic, yeah? You never hear them mentioned otherwise...does a water main actually exist without a break?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor
I love this word, but torn as to whether I should use it to describe the arrival of monsoon season in India . . .
Petrichor (/ˈpɛtrɨkɔər/) is the scent of rain on dry earth, or the scent of dust after rain. The word is constructed from Greek, petros, meaning stone + ichor, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. It is defined as "the distinctive scent which accompanies the first rain after a long warm dry spell".[1]
diurnal
[dahy-ur-nl]
adjective
1. of or pertaining to a day or each day; daily.
2. of or belonging to the daytime (opposed to nocturnal ).