{"id":549,"date":"2012-09-17T12:47:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T00:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2012-09-17T12:47:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T00:47:51","slug":"vocabulary-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/2012\/09\/vocabulary-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love words. I love lots of words. I love words that roll around in your mouth when you say them (squirrel, squish, lisianthus, isthmus, apocalypse). I love words that trigger specific memories (punch-cards, jazz, Christmas, Grandad). I have always had a good vocabulary and I think being an only child for so many of my formative years (I was six when my sister arrived) was a key contributor to that, as most of my interactions were with adults. Of course learning to read, and loving reading, means I am continually extending my vocabulary, and I try to look up the meaning of words I don’t know. [As an aside, this is one of the benefits of an e-reader; it makes it so easy to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word with a click providing the definition. I never thought I’d ever be saying that there was anything better than a real book, but for learning new words… I have to admit that e-readers have this slight advantage.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Apart from discoveries through reading, in my daily life I don’t often come across chances to learn a new word, so it was with delight that I realised the sign above Martin Bosley<\/a>‘s table at the City Market<\/a> yesterday contained a word I didn’t know.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Martin was persuaded to pose and highlight the word for my photograph. The word is tracklements<\/strong><\/em> (ha – the WordPress dictionary doesn’t think it is a word!). Martin told me it has a similar meaning to condiments<\/em>, but covers a broader range. Here’s a link to the dictionary definition on wiktionary<\/a>, and another on World Wide Words <\/a>which provides more information on the origin of the word.<\/p>\n

Here are just two of Martin’s tracklements:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’m so pleased to have learned a new word today!<\/p>\n

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