On the "other" blog I wrote, in part, about the joys of serendipity that the printed word has over digital. Such was the case the other day when I was searching for the definition of a word and stumbled across imputrescible.
adj. not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible.
It's from the Latin putresc(ere), to grow rotten.
Example? The last thing one could characterize Roger Clemens' testimony before Congress this week was that it was imputrescible.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
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2 comments:
For the first time in my life, I came across the word "putrescible" (in an article in the February Harper's).
I didn't have to look it up.
Plate o' shrimp.
There are no coincidences.
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