Word-Wednesday for August 28, 2019

And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, for August 28, 2019, the 35th Wednesday of the year,  the 240th day of the year, with 125 days remaining.


Nordhem Lunch: Hot Turkey Plate


Earth/Moon Almanac for August 28, 2019
Sunrise: 6:35am; Sunset: 8:15pm; 3 minutes, 25 seconds less daylight today
Moonrise: 3:51am; Moonset: 7:39pm, waning crescent

50% chance of rain tonight.

Temperature Almanac for August 28, 2019
                Average           Record          Today
High             74                   96                 70
Low              51                   30                 52


August 28 Celebrations from National Day Calendar

• National Power Rangers Day
• National Bow Tie Day
• National Cherry Turnovers Day
• Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day
• Bad Poetry Day

August 28 Riddle
What do you call a hen who can count her own eggs?*


August 28 Pun

A hydrogen atom and a helium atom go into a bar. The hydrogen atom is clearly upset and moans, “I’ve lost my electron, my only electron.” The concerned helium atom says, “Just calm down now … are you sure you’ve lost it?” 

The hydrogen atom replies, “Yes, I’m positive!”

(Later, a neutron walks in to the same bar. He sits down and says to the bar tender, “Hey, how much for a beer?” The bar tender looks at him and says, “For you, no charge!”)

August 28 Notable Historic Events, Literary or Otherwise, from On This Day

• 1789 William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus.
• 1837 Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire Sauce.
• 1917 Ten suffragists arrested as they picket the White House.
• 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech addressing a civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

August 28 Author/Artist/Character Birthdays, from On This Day

• 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• 1957 Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and activist.

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

• akratic: characterized by weakness of will resulting in action against one’s better judgment.
• billywitch: a cockchafer.
• delphine: of or relating to the dolphins.
• discur: to run about; to range, wander.
• pericope: an extract from a text.
• saveloy: a type of highly seasoned sausage, usually bright red, normally boiled and often available in British fish and chip shops, especially in London, Leeds, Newcastle, and the English Midlands and is occasionally also available fried in batter.
• smaragdine: of or relating to emeralds; having the color of emeralds.
• spruik: to speak in public on a particular topic.
• tittling: adj., that tickles or itches.
• toff: a rich or upper-class person.

August 28, 2019 Word-Wednesday Feature
Parachesis
A general term for repetition of sounds across words, parachesis includes forms of sonic repetition such as alliteration, consonance, and assonance, used for such purposes as gaining attention, creating focus, and building emphasis. It is also fun word play.

Peter Piper, presumably peckish, picked a prodigious peck of pickled peppers, a posh pack of pink persimmons, and preposterous pound of pilgarlic pumpkins.

For musically inclined Wannaskan Almanac readers, please enjoy listening to a song filled with parachesis lyrics here.


Be better than yesterday,
learn a new word today,
try to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow,
and write when you have the time.

*A mathemachicken.