Peter Sokolowski
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1,660 appearances
105 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard yesterday
Peter Sokolowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 105 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 35.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from Mothers of Magic, summoning the wisdom of our ancestors by Perdita Finn.
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My mother could make me anything I wanted to be.
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As a child, she transformed me into a swan, a mermaid, a white Persian cat dressed like an elegant Victorian lady with a pork pie hat and a ruffled bustle to accentuate my tail.
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She'd trained as a costume designer.
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When you accentuate something, you put an accent or emphasis on it.
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Stress not about the word's history.
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Its journey into the English language was very straightforward.
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It comes from the Latin accentus, meaning accent, which itself comes from cantus meaning song.
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and since the early eighteenth century its meanings haven't changed very much.
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The word was initially used as a synonym of the verb accent, to mean to pronounce with greater stress or force, which is a small leap from today's meaning of to make something more noticeable or to emphasize.
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One excellent way to remember not only how to pronounce accentuate, but also its etymological connection to song is the classic and helpfully titled Accentuate the Positive by Harold Darlin and Johnny Mercer, which has been performed by such luminaries as Dinah Washington, Sam Cook, and Bing Crosby, and the Andrews Sisters.
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your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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PRO QUU O
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Quid pro quo is a noun.
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It refers to something that is given to you or done for you in return for something you have given to or done for someone else.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from Polygon by Devin McClure.
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for each proposal, it's almost guaranteed you'll have to negotiate with at least one faction, which usually involves some kind of quid pro quo.
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Maybe you agree to pass a policy they want next or to advance research on a new technology of their choice.
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In the fifteen hundreds a quid pro quo was something obtained from an apothecary.
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