tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post4797824969576584321..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: weathered tour pregnantAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-34710035910426689732012-05-21T06:58:36.450+01:002012-05-21T06:58:36.450+01:00Did the word "gravid" rise in your mind?...Did the word "gravid" rise in your mind? It was some time before that word's meaning stuck with me. I was going to say it belongs to a special category of words for which a meaning-mnemonic proves hard to come by. But the dictionary tells me I am wrong since gravi- is a prefix unsurprisingly related to heavy and weight. I should compliment myself that I've looked up the word but I cannot do this. So often when I finally verify a word I've known and used for decades I find at best there's some nuance I was unaware of, while at worst my understanding turns out to be 50% false. Leading to a quick trawl of historical moments when I may have used the word, when someone better equipped intellectually may have recognised my error but said nothing and <i>allowed me to go on making it</i>. A sort of retrospective lack of confidence.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com