Peter Sokolowski

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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day · vituperate · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

This isn't to say that one needs must wear a top hat or pansne to vituperate or be vituperated, only that the word vituperate, which traces in part to the Latin word vitium, meaning fault, tends to appear in the types of publications that also use constructions like needs must, and words like pansne. voice-verified

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski. voice-verified

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day · itinerant · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

It's the word of the day for july twenty fourth. voice-verified

Today's word is itinerant, spelled I T I N E-R-A-N-T. voice-verified

Itinerant is an adjective. voice-verified

It describes someone who travels from place to place or only stays in a place for a short amount of time. voice-verified

It's used especially for people who travel in a circuit for their profession. voice-verified

Here's the word used in a sentence from the BBC by Deborah Nichols-Lee. voice-verified

There has long been this masculine idea that a lone, itinerant male blues singer, travelling the south with a guitar slung over his back was the authentic representation of the blues, doctor Cookie Woolner explains, while female performers like Ma Rainey, who drew from Vaudeville and Blackface Minstrels, were commercial entertainers and not artists. voice-verified

Many a song in popular music has been penned about the itinerant lifestyle of touring, ranging from the exuberant, like travel and band by Credence Clearwater Revival, to the exhausted, like Lodi by Credence Clearwater Revival. voice-verified

All journeys have their highs and lows, of course, and the word itinerant is all about the journey, not the destination. voice-verified

Indeed, itinerant comes from the late Latin verb itinerari, meaning to journey, which in turn traipsed down the etymological trail from the noun eter meaning way or journey. voice-verified

Itinerant is usually encountered as an adjective used to describe traveling types, especially those like touring musicians, whose itineraries to use another eter descendant, are often circuits, but can also be used as a noun. voice-verified

Itinerants, musical or otherwise, are those who never stay in one place for long, who, whether by choice, profession, or circumstance, keep on chugglin'. voice-verified