Sip of the Day - Ways to Save on Dining
Titera's Tidbit: Agritourism
Introduced into English only in 2005, "agritourism" owes to the Italian original agriturismo, describing a kind of travel in which a visitor spends time -- whether a single meal or several days -- on a farm to learn about the particular food made there or in the immediate vicinity. "Agritourism" is becoming widely popular in Europe, and its practice is slowly spreading to North America as well.
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Sip of the Day - July 17, 2009
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Titera's Tidbit: Cool
The use of "cool" as an approving term dates back to the late nineteenth century when it turns up in both African American and African British slang. It was largely confined to British blacks until World War II when American service personnel picked it up and introduced it to the American vernacular. Back home, it spread through jazz music, early rock, and the radio, making it standard usage by the late 1950s.
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Titera's Tidbit: Cutting Edge
The sense of "cutting edge" as an agent of change, as in Ernst Mayr's scientific maxim, "Behavior is the cutting edge of evolution", owes to the British writer H.G. Wells. Mostly known for science fiction, Wells also wrote a history of the world, and he used the term to mean an outside force that changed a society, such as the introduction of Christianity to the Roman Empire.
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Titera's Tidbit: O.K.
Efforts have been made to trace this term to an African original, okeh, but this all-American term comes from President Martin Van Buren, who served from 1837 to 1841. He approved documents with the initials "O.K.", which stood for his nickname, Old Kinderhook, after the New York town where he was born.
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Sip of the Day - July 8, 2008
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Titera's Tidbit: Soldier
In ancient Rome, a soldus was a coin, which is to say, something solid (solidus) and valuable. The word remains in the modern Italian word for money, soldi. Someone who fought in exchange for that coin was called a solidarius, the origin of our word.
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Titera's Tidbit: Swimmingly
"How did the presentation go?" "Swimmingly." Somewhat old-fashioned, this word doesn't mean that something took place in a pool, but instead that it caused heads to swim.
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Titera's Tidbit: Obituary
In Latin, obire means "go to meet", particularly in the sense of going to meet one's maker, often specified as obire mortem, "to go to meet death". An obituarius was a notice that someone had died, the origin of the modern term with the same meaning.
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Titera's Tidbit: Blog
In 1997, using a new technology that allowed him to make daily changes to his home page on the World Wide Web, a journalist called Jorn Barger coined the term "weblog", on the model of a ship or airplane log. In 1999, Peter Merholz read the word as "we blog", and abbreviated it as "blog" on his own site. The word has proliferated, just as the thing itself.
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Titera's Tidbit: Bushel
A "bushel", in the United States a unit of dry capacity equaling 2,150.42 cubic inches, is much larger than its original, which in Middle English meant "a measure of grain", and, more precisely, a boissel -- the palm of the hand
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Sip of the Day - June 24, 2009
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Titera's Tidbit: Ohm
George Simon Ohm (1787-1854), a German physicist, was the author of a principle called "Ohm's law", which says that in a simple electrical circuit the potential difference -- that is, the voltage -- across an ideal conductor is proportional to the current through it. The "ohm", a unit of electrical reistance in a conductor, was named in his honor
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Titera's Tidbit: Obscene
Something "obscene" isn't appropriate for audiences under adult age, if for anyone at all. The original obscenus, which combines the Latin words for "away from" and "theater stage", carries the sense of not being viewable by polite society.
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