qua

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Hi Liola

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qua

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1) - Cite This Source
qua
Pronunciation Key
Pronunciation[kwey, kwah]
–adverb
as; as being; in the character or capacity of: The work of art qua art can be judged by aesthetic criteria only.
[Origin: 1640–50; < style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=who">who]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

qua
Pronunciation[kwey, kwah]
–adverb
as; as being; in the character or capacity of: The work of art qua art can be judged by aesthetic criteria only.
[Origin: 1640–50; < style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=who">who]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1)Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

American Heritage Dictionary
qua (kw, kwä) Pronunciation Key
prep.
In the capacity or character of; as: The President qua head of the party mediated the dispute. [Latin qu, feminine ablative sing. of qu, who. See kwo- in Indo-European Roots.]

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source
qua
preposition
Etymology: Latin, which way, as, from ablative singular feminine of qui who: in the capacity or character of


Two dictionaries define it as an adverb, and 2 define it as a preposition.
Some kind of latin lawyerese or something.
I've heard of quo, like quo vadis, but never ever have I heard of qua.

Now I have.

Limn

I've seen a lot of words in my time, and this is one I must admit I never ever heard of.
I joined a word of the day email. That's how I found it

limn
verb transitive
to depict by drawing or painting
to describe

Used in a sentence :
Language can limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

Interesting.

Dinah

forlorn must have been a premonition.

Come on and sing along. Everybody knows this one. Mabe one missle will be zapped into nothingingness from the singing of a song.

I've been working on the railroad
All the live long day
I've been working on the railroad
Just to pass the time away
Can't you hear the whistle blowin'
Rise up so early in the morn
Can't you hear the captain shouting
Dinah blow your horn!
Dinah won't you blow
Dinah won't you blow
Dinah won't your blow your hor or orn
Dinah won't you blow
Dinah won't you blow
Dinah won't you blow your horn.

Someone's in the kithchen with Dinah
Someone's in the kitchen I kno o o ow
Someone's in the kithcen with Dinah
Strummin' on the old banjo
And singing
Fe fi fiddlie i o
Fe fi fiddlie i o o o o
Fe fi fiddlie i o
Strummin' on the old banjo.

:P :)
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Forlorn

forlorn
adj.
miserable, wretched
forsaken, desolate { this is the definition that fits}
hopeless, despairing.

When I feel forsaken and desolate I go into E space.

Ursprache

Good post for e space.

New Jersey girl wins National Spelling Bee
Teen prevails over 273 others in contest’s 1st prime-time broadcast

WASHINGTON -
A 13-year-old New Jersey girl making her fifth straight appearance at the Scripps National Spelling Bee rattled off "ursprache" to claim the title of America's best speller on prime-time television Thursday night.

Katharine Close, an eighth-grader at the H.W. Mountz School in Spring Lake, N.J., is the first girl since 1999 to win the national spelling title. She stepped back from the microphone and put her hands to her mouth upon being declared the winner.
"I'm just in shock," Katharine said. Asked what she'll remember most, she said: "Probably just hearing 'Ursprache,' which is a parent language." She recognized the word as soon as she heard it.

The winner goes home with more than $42,000 in cash and prizes.

Runner-up was Finola Mei Hwa Hackett, a 14-year-old Canadian, a confident speller during two days of competition who stumbled on "weltschmerz."

Third-place went to Saryn Hooks, a 14-year-old from West Alexander Middle School in Taylorsville, N.C., who was disqualified earlier in the evening, then returned to competition after the judges corrected their mistake. Saryn fumbled on "icteritious," which means of a jaundiced color.
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I confirmed with the dictionary (unabridged). Ursprache is in it and means 'a parent language'.
Don't think it is a word that comes up much.
Maybe I can fit it into a blog post.

I found this here:
http://www.dierinbeeld.nl/animal_files/birds/kookaburra/

Kookaburra
Dacelo novaeguineae

Kookaburra

This is a good song to sing when you're down. I sang it to the Kookaburra in the San Diego Zoo.
Ha.

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Very merry king of the bush is he
Laugh kookaburra laugh kookaburra
Gay your life must be.

{silly girl}