Saturday, November 30, 2013

Odd words explained

Newspapers often use words which send the readers looking for a dictionary.

Hardly ever do they help you understand them - meanings, origin, pronunciation - for the arcane (understood by few) and archaic (very old fashioned) word that are used. In this case, in the judicial order in the Arushi-Hemraj Murder Case.

The Wall Street Journal's India Realtime, picked five arcane words and dealt with them in a simple manner.

The words are: 1) decarcinating,2) beaut damsel, 3) jugulated, 4) flagitious, and 5) fortiori.

You would notice that the spell check does not recognise four of the five!

Read about it here.

Thank you, WSJ.