Peter Sokolowski
speaker
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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These evenings are all about enjoying good music on a balmy summer night.
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Aromatic ointments and fragrances are the balm.
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They are also literally balms, B-A-L-M-S, healing substances and soothing scents with the power to ease both mind and body.
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The original balm, what Latin speakers referred to as balsamum, was the oleoresin of a species of balsam tree.
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In Anglo-French, balsamum became balm and boom, spellings which entered Middle English and later became balm, B-A-L-M.
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Balm eventually begat the adjective balmy, used to describe things with a balm's comforting, calming qualities, as when Shakespeare's Othello speaks of balmy slumbers.
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Today, balmy is typically used to describe the weather, balmy breezes, balmy temperatures, balmy spring afternoons.
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Conditions that are neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.
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Goldilocks conditions, even.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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Visit Merriam-Webster.com today for definitions, wordplay, and trending word lookups.
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It's the word of the day podcast for August eighteenth.
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Today's word is oxymoron, spelled O XY M O R O N.
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Oxymoron is a noun.
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And oxymoron is a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings, such as cruel kindness or open secret.
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In broader usage, oxymoron can also refer to something, such as a concept, that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from Hello magazine.
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Even the most environmentally aware beauty editors I know, perhaps that's an oxymoron given the amount of product we have to test for our jobs, use sheet masks on a weekly basis.
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And the trend is showing no signs of slowing.
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The ancient Greeks exhaustively classified the elements of rhetoric or effective speech and writing, and gave the name oxymoron, literally pointed foolishness, to the deliberate juxtaposing of seemingly contradictory words.
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