Q. Who is
he? First President born a citizen of the United States, rather than a
British subject. First President born in New
York state. First President born after the Declaration of Independence. First (and, to date, only) President who
spoke a language other than English as his first language.
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
susurrate (SOO-suh-rayt) verb intr: To make a whispering or rustling sound. From Latin susurrare (to whisper or hum), of
imitative origin. Earliest documented
use: 1623.
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From: Oscar
Romero Subject:
susurrate I immediately connected that word with the
Spanish equivalent, “sururrar” which of course also means to whisper--and,
another word; “suspirar” which means to sigh . . . two quite often used words
in the Spanish language. Sure is nice to
see and to know the English cousins.
From: Marianna
Dadejova Subject:
susurrate I am so glad for this
word. It’s reminded me of my evening
classes, Community Interpreting, where we were also talking about different
types or techniques of interpreting.
Susurrate/Chuchotage Whispered
interpretation or Chuchotage is a technique where the interpreter provides
interpretation simultaneously to a small audience, usually less than four
people. In this setting, the interpreter
sits or stands close to the audience and whispers the interpretation into their
ears. It is used mainly in bilateral
meetings and small settings. Headsets
are not needed since it is a small group and no extra time is needed to
interpret because the interpretation is done while the speaker is speaking.
In the mathematical discipline of graph
theory, the dual graph of a plane graph G is a graph that has a vertex for each
face of G. The dual graph has an edge whenever two faces
of G are separated from each other by an
edge, and a self-loop when the same face appears on both
sides of an edge. The term "dual" is used because the property of
being a dual graph is symmetric, meaning that if H is a dual of a connected
graph G,
then G is a dual of H. When discussing the dual of a graph G,
the graph G itself may be referred to as the
"primal graph". Many other
graph properties and structures may be translated into other natural properties
and structures of the dual. For
instance, cycles are
dual to cuts, spanning
treesare dual to the complements of spanning trees, and simple graphs
(without parallel edges or self-loops) are dual to 3-edge-connected graphs. Graph duality can help explain the structure
of mazes and of drainage
basins. Dual graphs have also been
applied in computer
vision, computational geometry, mesh
generation, and the design of integrated circuits. Read more and see graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_graph
The words “today,” “tonight,” and
“tomorrow” include
the implied preposition “to.” In fact,
they were once written as “to day,” “to night,” and “to morrow.” Later, hyphens were added (as in Macbeth’s
“sound and fury” soliloquy), then the hyphens fell away and the words were
joined. To use the additional
preposition “on” with these is redundant.
http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/02/on-to-morrow-and-to-morrow-and-to-morrow.html
A library patron wanted to know whether the toilet paper on a roll goes over or under
the roll. One answer is that if you want
the paper to move quickly, put the paper to go over the roll. If you want the paper to move slowly, put the
paper to go under the roll. See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3000828/1891-patent-perforated-toilet-paper-settles-debate-way-hang-roll.html and see description and drawings of
a toilet paper roll, Patent No. 465,588, Dec. 22, 1891
at https://www.google.com/patents/US465588
Zero Light Thirty is military slang for 12:30 PM (or
12:30 HRS). Zero Light refers to 12 PM
noon. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=zero%20light%20thirty
Zero
Dark Thirty is
a film directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Zero Dark Thirty may also refer to: Zero Dark 30, an album by Mike
McClure; "Zero Dark Thirty", a song by Aesop Rock from Skelethon; or Oh dark thirty/zero dark thirty/dark
thirty, American military slang for an unspecified time between midnight and
sunrise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Dark_Thirty_(disambiguation)
“Food, like music, can bring people
together” - Connie Kinnard. Kinnard, vice president of multicultural
tourism at the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau teamed up with the
school system’s Cultural Passport program and Miami Culinary Tours to take a
group of children on a field trip that combined culture, history and
cuisine. Their bus rumbles out of Liberty City, east toward Little Haiti, and
less than 15 minutes later, it hisses to a halt outside of Piman Bouk New
Florida Bakery. The accordion doors open
and the scent of fresh-baked bread puffs inside, filling it with a
mouth-watering aroma. “What is that
smell?” Rodrick Wilson, 10, says. The
aroma is new and intoxicating. They walk
around to the side of the building, next to a colorful mural of a Haitian
sunset, where they meet up with Miami Culinary Tours guide Mirka Roch
Harris. The teachers open a white
cardboard pastry box packed with free-form tablet cocoye, a coconut-ginger cookie
that is hard to find off the island. Harris follows the children onto the bus and
sits halfway back, narrating the history of Little Haiti, from its origins as
Lemon City and its citrus groves, as the bus turns south and heads toward
Wynwood. She points out a cactus in
someone’s front lawn. “They eat that
kind of cactus in Mexico,” she tells them.
Some children laugh: Eating
cactus? “They make tacos out of it,” she
says. There’s a communal ohh. Later, Jimmy
Carey, a Johnson & Wales-trained chef raised in Puerto Rico, meets them to
tell them about Puerto Rican fare. He
brings with him a bucket-sized mortar and pestle used to make his mofongo, the
traditional Puerto Rican plantain and pork mash that is his restaurant’s
specialty. Harris leads the
children down the street to Los Pinareños fruit stand, where a clerk tells them
about several Caribbean fruits, from mangoes to rambutans. What’s a rambutan, they ask? The clerk holds up what Deztinie later
describes in her journal as a “hairy lychee.”
They pass around a bag of the freaky-looking fruits. “What is it?
How do you open it?” Anthony asks
before learning to crack it open with his fingertips. He eats the tender fruit inside down to the
seed. Carlos Frias http://flcourier.com/2016/12/a-taste-of-miami-for-schoolkids/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1674
January 6, 2017 On
this date in 1838, Alfred Vail demonstrated a telegraph system
using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code). On this date in 1956, Elizabeth Strout, American author and
academic, was born.
Thoughts for Today: "Reading
is not just an escape. It is access to a
better way of life." "Keeping libraries open, giving
access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty."
- Karin Slaughter, novelist (b. 6 Jan 1971)
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