Word-Wednesday for June 5, 2019

And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, for June 5, 2019, the 23rd Wednesday of the year,  the 156th day of the year, with 209 days remaining.


Nordhem Lunch:  Spaghetti Dinner.


Earth/Moon Almanac for June 5, 2019
Sunrise: 5:23am; Sunset: 9:21pm; 1 minute 24 seconds more daylight today
Moonrise: 6:28pm; Moonset: 10:50pm, waxing crescent


Temperature Almanac for June 5, 2019
                Average        Record           Today
High           70                   92                 78
Low            49                   28                 57


June 5 Celebrations from National Day Calendar

• National Gingerbread Day
• National Moonshine Day
• National Veggie Burger Day
• National Running Day

June 5 Riddle
Why was Pavlov’s hair so soft?*


June 5 Pun
What’s the best way to handle metronidazole?
Carefully, because it’s Flagyl.


June 5 Notable Historic Events, Literary or Otherwise, from On This Day

• 1661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge.
• 1799 Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set sail in the Pizarro from A Coruña and begin their 5 year Latin American expedition.
• 1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
• 1940 American Negro Theater organizes.
• 1951 Anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in serial form in The National Era.
• 1959 Bob Dylan graduates from Hibbing High School in Minnesota.
• 75 48th US National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor.

June 5 Author/Artist/Character Birthdays, from On This Day

• 1718 Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker.
• 1884 Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer.
• 1915 Alfred Kazin, American writer and literature critic.
• 1980 Draco Malfoy, Slytherin house.

Words-I-Looked-Up-This-Week Writer's Challenge
Make a single sentence (or poem) from the following words:

• black swan: an unpredictable or unforeseen event, typically one with extreme consequences.
• claggy: sticky or able to form sticky lumps.
• gilravage: noisy or drunken merrymaking; boisterous play; commotion, confusion.
• gollywobbler: a very large quadrilateral staysail set between the foremast and mainmast of a schooner.
• irredentist: a person advocating the restoration to their country of any territory formerly belonging to it.
• nebby: interfering, inquisitive, nosy.
• sitient: thirsty; dry, parched.
• smolt: a young salmon (or trout) after the parr stage, when it becomes silvery and migrates to the sea for the first time.
• verbalist: a person whose speech or writing lacks meaning, substance, value, a basis in reality, etc., or who is given to long-winded or verbose self-expression.
• zeep: to produce a high-pitched noise like that produced by friction or something traveling at speed; /esp./ (of an animal or bird) to give a call or emit a sound of this sort.

June 5 Word-Wednesday Feature
Spelling Bee Words
This year, eight different spellers were named co-champions of the 2019 Scripps Spelling Bee, correctly spelling such words a auslaut, erysipelas, bougainvillea, aiguillette, pendeloque, palama, cernuous, and okylic.

Here are a few of the winning words with definitions from past years:
2018
koinonia: intimate spiritual communion and participative sharing in a common religious commitment and spiritual community.

2015
nunatak: a hill or mountain completely surrounded by glacial ice.
scherenschnitte: the art of cutting paper into decorative designs.

2014
stichomythia: dialogue especially of altercation or dispute delivered in alternating lines (as in classical Greek drama).

2013
knaidel: a small mass of leavened dough cooked by boiling or steaming (as with soup, stew or fruit with which it is to be served) : a dumpling.

2012
guetapens: an ambush; a snare; a trap.

2011
cymotrichous: having the hair wavy.

2010
stromuhr: an instrument for measuring the flow of viscous substances designed to measure the amount and speed of blood flow through an artery.

2006
Ursprache: a parent language; especially : one reconstructed from the evidence of later languages.

1961
Chihuahua: a very small round-headed large-eared short-coated dog reputed to predate Aztec civilization.

1950
meticulosity: the quality or state of being extremely careful in the consideration or treatment of details.


Be better than yesterday, learn a new word today, spell it correctly, and write when you have the time.

*because he conditioned it