Peter Sokolowski
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first heard Jul 2026
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With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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spelled as one word S-O-U-T-H P A W.
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Southpaw is a noun.
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It's an informal word for someone who is left handed.
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It's especially used for a left-handed baseball pitcher or boxer.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from the Boston Herald.
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The Sox Southpaws perfect game bid ended when the Yankees loaded the bases with two outs in the fourth.
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Sandy Koufax, Lefty Grove, Whitey Ford.
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There's no doubt these Southpaws are some of the greatest baseball players of all time.
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What is in doubt is the origin of the word southpaw.
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One popular theory ties it to the layout of baseball parks.
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To keep the afternoon sun out of batter's eyes, diamonds were supposedly built so that the pitcher faced west, with their left arm, therefore pointed south.
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This theory strikes out, however, on account of the earliest known uses of the compound south paw, referring simply to one's left hand, unrelated to baseball.
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It wasn't until later in the century that the word began to be used via metonymy, first for a left handed person, and then specifically for a left handed pitcher.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sogolowski.
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It's the word of the day for August twenty sixth.
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Today's word is devolve, also pronounced devolve, and spelled D-E-V-O-L-V-E.
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Devolve is a verb.
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To devolve is to gradually go from an advanced state to a less advanced state, or to pass something such as responsibility or power from one person or group to another at a lower level of authority.
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