A to Z – it’s the end of the alphabet
Verandah Magazine’s last Word of the Week from AUM PR. How did 26 weeks pass so quickly? Ziggurats were massive structures built in the…
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The ewe was yearning to yean
Yean is Verandah Magazine’s penultimate Word of the Week from AUM PR, and a good one it is too. Originally from Middle English, ‘iyenen’…
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The X (Xeric) Files
We’re almost at the end of the alphabet, and AUM have found Verandah Magazine a word that we are definitely filing for future use…
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Little thin tiny ones, ones that squiggle and squirm…
Vermicular, our Word of the Week from AUM PR is from the latin vermiculus, a dimunitive of vermis – worm. Over the centuries it’s…
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And I’d howl at your beauty like a dog in heat…
Verandah Magazine’s ‘U’ word from AUM PR, is a a somewhat sad one this week. The word ululation is derived from Latin, and it’s…
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Wait on – those fibres are behaving in a transilient way
Verandah Magazine’s Word of the Week this week comes from the Latin, transilient, and translates as jumping across or passing over. Although our friends…
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Shhhhh, it’s a susurration of sparrows…
Latin. Greek. Lithuanian, German, Old Church Slavonic, Sanskrit – susurration’s been with us since the early 1400’s – originally from the Latin susurrationem, and…
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Quiddity’s an oddity and no quibbling about that
Quiddity has absolutely nothing to do with ‘quidditch’, the wizardly sport played on broomsticks in the Harry Potter universe. Quiddity, Verandah Magazine’s Word of…
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He was a most pantagruelian sort of a fellow…
Verandah Magazine’s Word of the Week this week from AUM PR comes from a character created by Francois Rabelais in his 1534 satirical novel…
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Oh no, uh-oh, it’s that word – ono, onomata – onomatopoeia
At Verandah Magazine we love the sound of onomatopoeia – a word that is derived from the Greek word for name, and phonetically imitates,…
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