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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word's ultimate source is the Latin word salve, meaning hail, which was an ancient Roman greeting.
In English, salvo is sometimes used for a sudden occurrence of applause or laughter from many people, which sounds to us like the best kind of all.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sakolowski.
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It's the word of the day for August twelfth.
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Today's word is gnomic, spelled G N O M I C.
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Gnomic is an adjective.
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It's a formal word that describes something cryptically said or written in a few words.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from the New Yorker.
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Indeed, the album that Michelangelo Dying reminds me of most is Lori Anderson's seminal Big Science from nineteen eighty two.
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Both atoms feature gnomic lyrical pronouncements.
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Rigid collapse, Kate LeBon chants on the track About Time, reminiscent of Anderson's talk singing big science hallelujah.
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A gnome is an aphorism, that is, a short phrase that expresses a true or wise idea.
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Gnomes are sometimes couched in metaphorical or figurative language, they are often quite clever, and they are always concise.
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We borrowed the word gnome in the 16th century from the Greeks, who based their word gnome on the verb gignoskein, meaning to know.
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The other gnome, referring to the dwarf of
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folklore, comes from New Latin and is unrelated to the aphoristic gnome.
We began using
gnomic, the adjective form of gnome in the late eighteenth century.
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