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Word of the day sub judice
by Christine Lovatt
"And the moment after that the whole thing was blanketed in the silence of sub judice..." Sub judice means under consideration by a court of law and therefore prohibited from public discussion elsewhere'. It comes from the Latin, and literally means 'under a judge'.
The name WENDY didn't exist until James Barrie wrote Peter Pan and used it for 'fwendy'
A CAMPAIGN to drink CHAMPAGNE would be interesting since both words share the Latin origin of 'campus', meaning open field
The word SAMBA means 'to rub navels together'
The only number with its letters in alphabetical order is FORTY
NONPLUS, meaning to bewilder, originally meant 'put into a position where 'no more' (Latin non plus) can be done
No English words rhyme with ORANGE, SILVER or PURPLE
BLIGHTY, meaning England to overseas Englishmen, comes from 'bilayati', (foreign)
The word KARATE means 'empty hand'
The only common English word with all its vowels in a row is QUEUING
'Calends', the first day of the Roman month when debts became due, gave rise to the word CALENDAR
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