And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, June 9, 2021, the 23rd Wednesday of the year, the twelfth Wednesday of spring, and the 160th day of the year, with 205 days remaining.
Wannaska Nature Update for June 9, 2021
Fireflies are out!
Nordhem Lunch: Closed.
Earth/Moon Almanac for June 9, 2021
Sunrise: 5:21am; Sunset: 9:26pm; 58 seconds more daylight today
Moonrise: 4:49am; Moonset: 9:00pm, waning crescent, 0% illuminated.
Temperature Almanac for June 9, 2021
Average Record Today
High 71 90 93
Low 50 32 63
June 9 Celebrations from National Day Calendar
- National Donald Duck Day
- National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day
- National Earl Day
June 9 Word Riddle
What is the quickest way to answer any Where, What, or When question?*
June 9 Pun
Our butcher accidentally backed into her meet grinder and got a little behind in her work.
June 9 Notable Historic Events, Literary or Otherwise, from On This Day
- 1456 Twenty-third recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
- 1549 Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England.
- 1790 First book copyrighted under constitution, Philadelphia Spelling Book.
- 1860 First U.S.A. "dime novel" published: Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter, by Mrs. Ann Stevens.
- 1891 French painter Paul Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti.
- 1924 Jelly-Roll Blues is recorded by jazz pioneer pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton.
- 1949 George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four.
June 9 Author/Artist/Character Birthdays, from On This Day
- 1836 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, first qualified woman physician in Britain, first woman mayor.
- 1843 Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist, first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, 1905.
- 1891 Cole Porter.
- 1934 Donald Duck.
June 9, 2021 Song of Myself
Verse 32 of 52
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d,
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
So they show their relations to me and I accept them,
They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession.
I wonder where they get those tokens,
Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them,
Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,
Picking out here one that I love, and now go with him on brotherly terms.
A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
Head high in the forehead, wide between the ears,
Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,
Eyes full of sparkling wickedness, ears finely cut, flexibly moving.
His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him,
His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around and return.
I but use you a minute, then I resign you, stallion,
Why do I need your paces when I myself out-gallop them?
Even as I stand or sit passing faster than you.
Words-I-Looked-Up-This-Week Writer's Challenge
Make a single sentence (or poem) from the following words:
[In keeping with the annual Word-Wednesday Scripp’s Spelling Bee Challenge below, see if you can first correctly spell these words before writing your sentence or pram. Correct spellings appear at the end of today's post.]**
- /uh-GLIFT/: adj., frightened or alarmed; startled.
- /boh-BESH/ n., a collar on a candlestick or chandelier designed to catch wax drippings, or from which to suspend crystal prisms.
- /dis-ˈflü-ən(t)-sē/ n., include stuttering and hesitations, as well as the fillers people insert to avoid awkward pauses while they find their next words and perhaps ensure there is no opening to allow interruption: “er,” “um,” “like,” “well,” “so” and “uh.” Others, such as “like”, “I mean”, “so”, are known as hesitation phenomena or filled pauses, which can have significant meaning and impact, or help us learn novel words (or even languages) in spoken verbal discourse.
- /ˈed-ə-ˌmäːmā/ n., a dish of green soybeans boiled or steamed in their pods.
- /LU-dra-man/ n., a commonly used Irish Gaelic word meaning useless layabout, or foolish idiot. It is often used as a kind of “friendly” insult.
- mens sana in corpore sano: Latin, a healthy mind in a healthy body.
- /ɒämˈ-‘nɪi-dʒɪjə-nəs/ adj., all kinds; of unlimited or exceptionally great diversity or variety.
- /PAIR-uh-nimf/ n., the attendants of a wedding such as the best man, bridesmaids, and groomsmen; someone who advocates on behalf of another in matters of love.
- /ROOK-er/ n., one who whispers or mumbles and spreads false rumors; a lying gossipmonger.
- /yurd/ v., to bury something; n., earth, soil, the ground.
June 9, 2021 Word-Wednesday Feature
2020-2021 Scripps Spelling Bee Challenge
As in previous years, the Scripps 2020-2021 School Spelling Bee Study List is broken down into three levels of difficulty: One Bee, Two Bee, and Three Bee. One Bee words include words appropriate for first, second and third grades. Two Bee words include words appropriate for fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Three Bee words include words appropriate for seventh and eighth grades.
Here are a sprinkling of words from each level that former champions used to win the competition. Use the phonetic spelling and definition to correctly spell each word***:
/äNGk/: n., an object or design resembling a cross but having a loop instead of the top arm, used in ancient Egypt as a symbol of life.
/ˌän-ə-ˌmad-ə-ˈpēə/: n., the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo).
/‘bo͞oˈd-an/: n., a French type of blood sausage.
/’drāg-ə(r)-mən/: n., one of a crew of miners trained in underground emergency and rescue work.
/e-ˈnäp-trə-ˌman(t)-sē/: n., divination by means of a mirror.
/er-oo-'bes-uhnt/: adj., becoming red or reddish; blushing.
/frēˈ-tä-də/: n., an Italian dish made with fried beaten eggs, resembling a Spanish omelet.
/kaj/: v., ask for or obtain (something).
/ˈkə-ləˌ-ne-rē/: adj., of or for cooking.
/ˈkwɒ-kə/: n., a stocky herbivorous marsupial (Setonix brachyurus of the family Macropodidae) of southwestern Australia that has a short tail.
/ˈni-təd/: adj., bright, lustrous.
/ˌpaˈ-nir/: n., a type of curd cheese used in Indian, Iranian, and Afghan cooking.
/ri-'si-sə-bəl/: adj., capable of being rescinded.
/theer-ee-a'-triks/: n., the study of veterinary medicine.
/ven-ˈtril-ə-kwē/: n., the art or practice of making one's voice appear to come from somewhere else, typically a dummy of a person or animal.
From A Year with Rilke, June 9 Entry
Trust, from Early Journals
You know that the flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that—that is, filled with deep trust
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.
*replace the W with a T.
**
Words I looked up spellings:
aglifft, bobèche, disfluency, edamame, ludraman, omnigenous, paranymph, rouker, yird.
***
Correct Scripps Spelling Bee Challenge spellings:
ankh, onomatopoeia, boudin, draegerman, enoptromancy, erubescent, frittata, cadge, culinary, quokka, nitid, paneer, rescissible, theriatrics, ventriloquy.
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