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I take pride in my language, even though I am not very good at its grammar, but good at the spelling and its vagaries and nuances. Because of the enormous number of words in the language, a most descriptive one if there is one, I try to learn a new word each day. Assisted by Sr. Anu Garg, an Indian linguist? Lexicographer based in Seattle and every morning I would like to see whether I know the word he is talking about. Sometimes YES and Sometimes NO
This morning’s word brought the language close to my heart. I took it so much that when I am Siem Reap or Yangon next, I will get a Business Card printed thus:
Dr Y….K
MD MsC MS FRAI(London)
HETEROCLITE
Now to explain what the word means, I will leave it up to Sr. Anu Garg. How it applies to me, I may tell you .
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg
heteroclite
PRONUNCIATION:
(HET-uhr-uh-klyt) ![]()
MEANING:
noun:
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1. A person who is unconventional; a maverick.
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2. A word that is irregularly formed.
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adjective:
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1. Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric.
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2. (In grammar) Irregularly inflected.
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ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin heteroclitus, from Greek heteroklitos, from hetero- (different) + klinein (to lean, inflect). Ultimately from the Indo-European root klei- (to lean), which also gave us decline, incline, recline, lean, client, climax, and ladder. Earliest documented use: 1580.
THE DEFINITIONS I LIKE
NOUN. A PERSON WHO IS UNCONVENTIONAL
ADJ. DEVIATING FROM THE ORDINARY RULE
Dr. Pincus one of my teachers in Melbourne, said to me, you stand out like a sore thumb and would make others feel uncomfortable, with the way you think and live. I was being slightly unconventional at that time, in that I refused to contribute to the general trend of bucking to the conservative medical authorities so that I can have an easy path up ..
So Heteroclites of the world, Let us go our own ways..
Seems to be strange writing after watching a video about the cyclical nature of compulsiveness of human mind that leads to misery, where the Heteroclites would follow their consciousness in a straight forward path…
