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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 at AUM PR, love the idea of a hammock – the word is often used in a medical context, for example:  The transilience of the cortical association fibres that pass between nonadjacent convolutions of the brain.  Right, well that’s clear then.

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Latin.  Greek. Lithuanian, German, Old Church Slavonic, Sanskrit – susurration’s been with us since the early 1400’s – originally from the Latin susurrationem, and meaning as our friends at AUM PR tell us here at Verandah Magazine, a whisper or a murmer.  Shhhhh I can’t hear the susurration of the trees…

‘His own name, pronounced in the utmost compression of susurration, they say, he catches at a quarter furlong interval.’ – Charles Lamb

‘If he had read his Biffin he would have known that the correct terms are a ” susurration of sparrows” and a “pop of weasels.”‘ Punch – or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 9, 1914
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“She danced so curving, lissom,
like the laughter of the song.
She sent resounding into space
and down the ages long.”

Rather to our surprise lissom, or to its occasional variant, lissome, doesn’t always refer to young women – it can, apparently, even refer to material.  As in “that rattan, it’s so lissom”.  Hmm, it doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue.

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