Wonderful Words

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Today I came across a wonderful word that isn't used much anymore and is one of my favorites: propinquity

Do you have a favorite word or words that are seldom used now?
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diplomacy

gratitude

humility

integrity

i doubt these are the sorts of words you’re aiming for, but, they are often on my mind. :)
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Copacetic
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temporal1 wrote:diplomacy

gratitude

humility

integrity

i doubt these are the sorts of words you’re aiming for, but, they are often on my mind. :)
Repentance

Confession

Atonement

Redemption
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Sudsy wrote:Copacetic
Can you give me a dictionary meaning for that word?
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Hats Off wrote:
Sudsy wrote:Copacetic
Can you give me a dictionary meaning for that word?
copacetic - completely satisfactory; "his smile said that everything was copacetic"
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I tried looking up the word but did not find it in the dictionary I was checking.
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Hats Off wrote:I tried looking up the word but did not find it in the dictionary I was checking.
ok. fine. :mrgreen:
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/copacetic
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I never really thought about the origins of "copacetic" but found this interesting note at Merriam-Webster:
The Mysterious Origin of copacetic
Theories about the origin of copacetic abound, but the facts about the word’s history are scant: it appears to have arisen in African-American slang in the southern U.S., possibly as early as the 1880s, with earliest known evidence of it in print dating only to 1919. Beyond that, we have only speculation. One theory is that the term is descended from Hebrew kol be sedher (or kol b’seder or chol b’seder), meaning “everything is in order.” That theory is problematic for a number of reasons, among them that in order for a Hebrew expression to have been adopted into English at that time it would have passed through Yiddish, and there is no evidence of the phrase in Yiddish dictionaries. Other theories trace copacetic to Creole coupèstique (“able to be coped with”), Italian cappo sotto (literally “head under,” figuratively “okay”), or Chinook jargon copacete (“everything’s all right”), but no evidence to substantiate any of these has been found. Another theory credits the coining of the word to Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, who used the word frequently and believed himself to be the coiner. Anecdotal recollections of the word’s use, however, predate his lifetime.
I think it's a lingua franca term because of it's similar phonetics in other languages. Perhaps Neto can give some insight?
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MaxPC wrote:I never really thought about the origins of "copacetic" but found this interesting note at Merriam-Webster:
I think it's a lingua franca term because of it's similar phonetics in other languages. Perhaps Neto can give some insight?
so interesting.
my older brother (deceased 1996) .. came home with this word when he was a teen. he had a lot of fun with it. he was not a wordsmith, very quiet! - so, for him to do this was memorable!
i smile and remember him whenever i hear it. he+his car buddies must have stumbled on it somewhere. probably late 1950’s.
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