Netiquette IQ: 2019-04-21

Saturday, April 27, 2019

Happy Orthodox Easter! Christ has risebn Христос воскрес! - He is truly risen - Voistinu voskrese!

Happy Orthodox Easter -

Christ has riseb Христос воскрес!

He is truly risen - Voistinu voskrese!

Easter,^{[nb 1]} also called Pascha (Greek, Latin)^{[nb 2]} or Resurrection Sunday,^[5][6] is a festival and holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day after his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.^[7][8] It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.

Most Christians refer to the week before Easter as "Holy Week", which contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper,^[9][10] as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus.^[11] In Western Christianity, Eastertide, or the Easter Season, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts seven weeks, ending with the coming of the 50th day, Pentecost Sunday. In Eastern Christianity, the season of Pascha begins on Pascha and ends with the coming of the 40th day, the Feast of the Ascension.

April is the official month for:

From thebalancecareers.com

The following events, industries, causes and emotions (yes, emotions) are observed all month long in April unless otherwise indicated. Even cannabis (fast becoming legalized), Florida tomatoes, celery, and soft pretzels are honored, beginning April 1 through April 30—every year.

African-American Women's Fitness Month
Alcohol Awareness Month
Amateur Radio Month
American Cancer Society Month
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
Black Women's History Month
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month
Celebrate Diversity Month
Community Service Month
Confederate History Month
Distracted Driving Awareness Month
Financial Literacy Month
Fresh Florida Tomato Month
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month
Jewish-American Heritage Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
Lawn and Garden Month
Mathematics Awareness Month

Month of the Military Child
National Autism Awareness Month
National Better Hearing and Speech Month
National Canine Fitness Month
National Cannabis Awareness Month
National Car Care Awareness Month
National Child Abuse Awareness Month
National Couple Appreciation Month
National Deaf History Month (March 13 to April 15)
National Decorating Month
National Donate Life Awareness Month
National Fair Housing Month
National Food Month
National Fresh Celery Month
National Garden Month
National Humor Month
National Internship Awareness Month

National Inventor's Month
National Jazz Appreciation Month

National Landscape Architecture Month
National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week (last full week in April)
National Mental Health Month
National Month of Hope
National Multiple Birth Awareness Month
National Occupational Therapy Month
National Older Americans Month
National Parkinson's Awareness Month
National Pecan Month
National Poetry Month
National Safe Digging Month
National Siblings Day (April 10)
National Soft Pretzel Month
National Soy Foods Month

National STDs Education and Awareness Month
National Straw Hat Month
National Volunteer Month
National Welding Month
Occupational Therapy Month
Pets are Wonderful Month
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month
Records and Information Management Month
Scottish-American Heritage Month
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Stress Awareness Month
Thai Heritage Month
Women's Health Care Month

International and One-Day Observances

Because you may be in the business of working with internationals, we can not forget the participation of other countries. Here are a few international honorees, as well as some causes that are observed globally:

April is International Guitar Month, recognized in several countries.
Ontario, Canada recognizes April as Sikh Heritage Month.
April is National Pet Month in the United Kingdom, although the U.S. waits until May to honor Postsits non-human family members.
International Pillow Fight Day is observed on April 6 in 2019.
World Autism Awareness Day also falls on April 2 in 2019.
World Health Day is April 7, in 2019.

Friday, April 26, 2019

Netiquette IQ Blog Of 4/26/2019 - Interesting Obsolete Words

by Richard Nordquist from thoughtco.com

Richard Nordquist is a freelance writer and former professor of English and Rhetoric who wrote college-level Grammar and Composition textbooks.

Updated February 27, 2018

Obsolete word is a temporal label commonly used by lexicographers (that is, editors of dictionaries) to indicate that a word (or a particular form or sense of a word) is no longer in active use in speech and writing.

"In general," notes Peter Meltzer, "the difference between an obsolete word and an archaic word is that, although both have fallen into disuse, an obsolete word has done so more recently" (The Thinker's Thesaurus, 2010).

The editors of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (2006) make this distinction:

Archaic. [T]his label is attached to entry words and senses for which there is only sporadic evidence in print after 1755 . . ..

Obsolete. [T]his label is attached to entry words and senses for which there is little or no printed evidence since 1755.

In addition, as Knud Sørensen points out, "it sometimes occurs that words which have become obsolete in Britain continue to be current in the United States (compare Amer. Engl. fall and Brit. Engl. autumn)" (Languages in Contact and Contrast, 1991).

Following are some examples of obsolete words:

Illecebrous

"Illecebrous [ill-less-uh-brus] an obsolete word meaning 'attractive, alluring.' From a Latin word meaning 'to entice.'"
(Erin McKean, Totally Weird and Wonderful Words. Oxford University Press, 2006)

Mawk

"The underlying meaning of mawkish is 'maggotish.' It was derived from a now obsolete word mawk, which meant literally 'maggot' but was used figuratively (like maggot itself) for a 'whim' or 'fastidious fancy.' Hence mawkish originally meant 'nauseated, as if repelled by something one is too fastidious to eat.' In the 18th century the notion of 'sickness' or 'sickliness' produced the present-day sense 'over-sentimental.'"
(John Ayto, Word Origins, 2nd ed. A & C Black, 2005)

Muckrake

"Mudslinging and muckraking--two words commonly connected with the pursuit of an elected office and the flotsam the campaigns leave in their wake.
"Voters seem fairly familiar with the term used to describe malicious or scandalous attacks against opponents, but the latter 'm' word may be new for some people. It is an obsolete word describing a tool used to rake muck or dung and used in reference to a character in John Bunyan’s classic Pilgrim’s Progress [1678]--'the Man with the Muck-rake' who rejected salvation to focus on filth."
(Vanessa Curry, "Don’t Muck It Up, and We Won’t Rake It." The Daily Herald [Columbia, TN], April 3, 2014)|

Slubberdegullion

Slubberdegullion is "n: a slobbering or dirty fellow, a worthless sloven," 1610s, from slubber "to daub, smear, behave carelessly or negligently" (1520s), probably from Dutch or Low German (cf. slobber (v)). Second element appears to be an attempt to imitate French; or perhaps it is French, related to Old French goalon "a sloven." "Century Dictionary speculates the -de- means 'insignificant' or else is from hobbledehoy."

Snoutfair

Snoutfair is a person with a handsome countenance (literally, a fair snout). Its origins are from the 1500s.

Lunting

Lunting means to walk while smoking a pipe. Lunting is also the emantion of smoke or steam from a tobacco pipe, or the flame used to light a fire, torch, or pipe, The word lunting originated in the 1500s "from either the Dutch word 'lont' meaning a slow match or fuse or the Middle Low German 'lonte' meaning a wick.

With Squirrel

With squirrel is a euphemism that means pregnant. It originated in the Ozark Mountains in the early 20th century.

Curglaff

Curglaff is commonly felt by people in northern climes —it is the shock that one feels when first plunging into cold water. The word curglaff originated from Scotland in the 1800s. (Also spelled curgloff).

Groak

To groak (verb) is to watch someone longingly while they are eating, in the hope that they will give you some of their food. The origin is possibly Scottish.

Cockalorum

Cockalorum is a little man who has an over-inflated opinion of himself and thinks himself more important than he is; also, boastful speech. The origin of cockalorum may be from the from the obsolete Flemish word kockeloeren of the 1700s, meaning "to crow."