Obscure Canwest Canspell Words
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I bet you don't keep a dictionary handy when you do the RD thing either.
Hey Anna, it's a nice beautiful sunny day out.............BE NICE.:lol::lol::lol:
Oh, I know that, sometimes when people say one thing about one person they are inferring the opposite about another person, silly old me should have known you wouldn't do that. Please help me out before I go nuts.......... Who is S.P.A.? I see those initials all the time but they don't ring a bell.
As a yearly subscriber to RD, I must take acception to your comment about the grade level you mentioned. I am quite sure it must be at least grade 8 as I seem to be able to score between 18 and 20 quite consistently. lol :lol:
Here's a word for you straight from the pages of RD's December issue.
kinara - Kwanza
A. candle holder
B. ceremonial head scarf
C. religious dance.
No cheating now. :lol::lol:
I wouldn't have an inkling but since it's a hyphenated word I'd have to guess the religious dance.
Readers’ Digest says it is obscure, and dictionary on the Microsoft Word agrees (it is a very extensive, large dictionary). The Word spell checker does not recognize it. That is good enough for me.
That would have been my guess, Mowich. The word ‘kinara’ sounds similar to the word ‘menorah', which refers to the candle arrangement used in the Jewish festival (Hanukkah). So that is what I would have guessed (though I didn’t know the word, of course). But in Reader’s Digest quiz, I very likely would have got the right answer.
And yes I agree with you, standard of Reader’s Digest English tends to be pretty high. I guess those who are trashing Reader’s Digest here are probably those who also do poorly on the Word Power quiz.
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Mowich, I remember you mention that you don’t have a broadband connection, only a dial up. Internet is very slow with dial up, so my guess is that you don’t waste a lot of time with internet and do plenty of reading instead.
I a voracious reader myself. I have found that if you read a lot, you vocabulary increases automatically, without trying.
I don’t’ know, TenPenny, I have always found reader’s Digest to be an interesting read. But then some of my tastes can only be described as right wing.
For instance, classical music and Gilbert and Sullivan are predominantly favored by right wingers. It is just as well we don’t discuss politics at the Gilbert and Sullivan festival. Sir Gilbert himself was a right winger, even for his times.
I remember reading a few years ago in Time, that the late William Rehnquist (former Chief Justice of US Supreme Court) was a great fan of G & S. That almost made me question my taste in G & S, in my opinion, the guy was a right wing nut.
You mean the typo? Oh, get a grip. I was saying that I am a voracious reader, that 'a' was just a typo.
S.J. One of my first rules of life is "there is an exception to every rule", and this is one of them. To the vast majority of the population "berm" is not an obscure word, as the vast majority of the posters here have tried to tell you. In fact it has many different uses in many walks of life - flood control, city planning, mining, earth retention, noise attenuation, stream rehabillitation. Why can't you just let go of the fact that "you know everything" and accept what people are trying to tell you once in awhile?
Is there nothing in life that you can enjoy without politicizing it? 95% of what's going on in the world has nothing to do with politics and 95% of the people involved really don't care a whit about politics.
