Peter Sokolowski
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1,510 appearances
96 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2d ago
Peter Sokolowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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It's the word of the day for august twenty second.
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Today's word is August, spelled A-U-G-U-S T.
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August is an adjective.
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It describes someone or something marked by majestic dignity or grandeur.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from Vogue.
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His tone is temperate, but the words echo through the State Capitol's assembly chamber, the august backdrop for his speech.
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The Roman Republican calendar spanned just ten months from March through December.
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The last five months were each named for their numerical place on the calendar Quintilus fifth, Sextilus,
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September, seventh, October eighth.
Eighth.
November ninth, eighteen.
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December.
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Tenth.
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January and February were eventually added to create a twelve month year.
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obscuring the relationship between these months and their titles.
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So it was a welcome change when the Roman Senate honored Gaius Octavius, also known as Octavian, the first Roman Emperor, by changing Sextilus to Augustus, the designation taken by Octavian from the Latin adjective augustus, meaning worthy of honor or venerable.
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Although August has been the English name of the eighth month of the year since before the twelfth century, it wasn't until the late fifteen hundreds that August came to be used as an adjective, more or less as Augustus was in Latin.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolovsky.
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