Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Question of the Day #581

I've been missing out. On earthquakes.

Apparently, there was a bit of a shaker on Sunday night / Monday morning, sometime around 3:00 AM. It didn't wake me or anyone else in my house.

Then around 5:00 PM on Monday, another little earthquake hit followed by a series of tremblers. I didn't feel them either. (Who knew my WIP could be so gripping?)

When earthquakes arrive in bunches, they're called "swarms." What new term have you recently learned of?

xoxo,
Suzanne

4 comments:

  1. Ugh...I had to relearn the word 'avoid' today. For some reason my french mind kept thinking that 'evit' was a word. But the thesaurus says its not.

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  2. Tough question, since stuff like new terms generally creeps into vocab on a sneaky, quasi-subliminal manner. I guess the newest terms I've come across have all be special education-related: SELPA, CAC, SH, "Push In," etc.

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  3. Plumes! I thought they were feathers, unfortunately in the Gulf they have another meaning :(

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  4. There was a bunch last night too. Did you feel those?

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