Peter Sokolowski
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829 appearances
55 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Aug
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 Merriam Webster's word of the day for august sixteenth.
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Today's word is Zugma, spelled Z-E-U-G-M-A.
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Zugma is a noun.
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It refers to wordplay in which a single word relates to other words in such a way that it means something different in each case, as in building a boat and a reputation, and open a book along with your mind.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
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In an evocative use of Zugma, my favorite literary device, Braithwaite writes, The old house and everyone in it was falling apart.
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Zugma, like the pun, is economical, it contracts two sentences into one.
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It links unrelated terms, mental with moral, abstract with physical, high with low, and thus generates surprise, wrote Walter Redfern in the book Pons.
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Zigma, which has been a part of the English language since the fifteenth century, comes from Greek where it literally means joining.
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But even those who are unfamiliar with the word are likely well acquainted with the clever word play to which it refers.
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Zugma is a beloved device of lyricists, probably for the economy noted by Redfern.
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Notable examples come from Alanis Morissette with You Held Your Breath and the Door for Me, Taylor Swift,
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with the wine as cold like the shoulder that I gave you, and the beetles
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Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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Visit MarionWebster dot com today for definitions, wordplay, and trending word lookups.
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Today's word is circumscribe, spelled C-I-R-C-U-M-S-C-R-I-B-E.
Circumscribe is a verb.
To circumscribe something is to limit its range or activity.
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