Peter Sokolowski
speaker
1,458 appearances
93 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard yesterday
Peter Sokolowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Pizza Party, Calzone.
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From Calcs, Latin users formed the first verb calcitrare, meaning to kick, and then recalcitrare, meaning to kick back.
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In late Latin, recalcitrare was used figuratively to mean to be stubbornly disobedient, leading to the English adjective we apply today to stubborn mules both human and asinine.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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It's Mariam Webster's word of the day for september second.
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Today's word is dissonant, spelled D I S O N A N T.
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Dissonant is an adjective.
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Dissonant typically describes music that is not in harmony or sounds and notes that clash.
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In non music contexts, dissonant describes things that clash by not being in agreement or by not fitting well together.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from pitchfork.
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Their disparate sonic elements form a dissonant but cohesive whole, wisps of trumpet and electronic woodwinds flashing by as quickly as flickering subway car lights.
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At the root of the word dissonant is the Latin verb sonare.
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Can you guess what sonare means?
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Here's a hint: some related words are sonata, supersonic, and resonance.
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Does it sound to you as if sonare has something to do with sound?
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In fact, sonare means to sound, is related to the Latin noun sonus, meaning sound, and is also an ancestor of the English word sound.
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In musical contexts, dissonant and the related noun dissonance are used to describe a clashing or unresolved musical interval or chord.
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Consonance, in contrast, refers to a musical interval or chord that produces an impression of agreeableness or resolution.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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