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I learned a new food word today!

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Alex

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Flavedo was M-W's Word of the Day on May 28. It's defined as 

 

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the colored outer layer of the rind of a citrus fruit

 

I also learned its literal flip side, albedo, which is 

 

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the whitish, spongy inner part of the rind of a citrus fruit

 

I knew that word only for its primary definition: 

 

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the fraction of incident radiation (such as light) that is reflected by a surface or body (such as the moon or a cloud)

 

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

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heidih

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Yes interesting, but if most people don't know it, and language is how we communicate - is it useful.? I'll stick with zest and pith.

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Darienne

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30 minutes ago, heidih said:

Yes interesting, but if most people don't know it, and language is how we communicate - is it useful.? I'll stick with zest and pith.

Me too.

Darienne

 

learn, learn, learn...

 

We live in hope. 

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Margaret Pilgrim

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2 hours ago, Tropicalsenior said:

Whenever I learn new words I tried to imagine using them in conversations. I draw a complete blank on these.

Not to worry.    That's the response you'll get from others when you do use them.

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