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Today's Word "Dudgeon"
"I hope it will not put you in a dudgeon if I tell you that your purse doesn't match our dress."
By apheresis from the original form endugine, which may (or may not) have come from Welsh dygen "malice, resentment" with an enhancing prefix en- added for what reason no one knows. If so, it would be related to Cornish duehah, duwhan, "grief, sorrow."
This news arrived on: 12/11/2004
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01-25-2010 14:23
Vocabulary wrote:
dudgeon
What has happened to the venerable 'schwa' in your pronunciations? "eh" to most, I think, sounds like the 'e' in leg, not the sound of the unstressed vowel as in wizard, nosopoetic,aloud,broken, and oh, a million other words...
01-25-2010 10:32
Jim Bartley wrote:
"dudgeon" vocab. entry
Please take a look at this wonky sentence (below) quoted from "Today's Word ""dudgeon"".
[quoting]
No, today's word has nothing to do with subterranean jails but rather the mood of someone leaving one: angry, indignant humor, resentfulness.
What does that mean? I think the vocabulary wizard needs to consult a grammar wizard.
[quoting]
No, today's word has nothing to do with subterranean jails but rather the mood of someone leaving one: angry, indignant humor, resentfulness.
What does that mean? I think the vocabulary wizard needs to consult a grammar wizard.
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