For my fellow word addicts.
The oxford english dictionary gives us a word every day. How could I live without that?
http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/display/wotd
Todays word is
"´mongst "
poet. and regional (chiefly Caribbean and U.S., esp. in African-American usage).
= AMONGST prep.
1567 T. DRANT tr. Horace Pistles in Arte of Poetrie sig. Hiij, Mongst so much toyle, and such a coyle, Suche soking carke, and spyte. a1593 MARLOWE Faustus vii, Faustus is feasted mongst his noblemen. 1601 SHAKESPEARE Phoenix 20 Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. 1645 MILTON L'Allegro in Poems 30 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shreiks, and sights unholy. 1675 J. SMITH Christian Relig. Appeal II. 45 But they shall see her, in her native dress, Such as she is 'mongst shades, pale, sanguinless. 1707 I. WATTS Hymns (1751) I. xxxix. 28 And 'mongst a thousand tender Thoughts [can] Her Suckling have no Room? 1759 B. MARTIN Nat. Hist. Eng. II. 116 We antiently instile Mongst sundry other Things, a Wonder of our Isle. 1813 SCOTT Rokeby VI. xxxiii, As mute as fox 'mongst mangling hounds. 1871 F. T. PALGRAVE Lyrical Poems 38 'Mongst all perfections the most perfect wife. 1884 ‘M. TWAIN’ Huckleberry Finn viii, I..swum more'n half way acrost de river, en got in 'mongst de drift-wood. 1904 Sporting News (Launceston, Tasmania) 27 Aug. 2/8 Then raked through all our pockets, 'mongst tobacco, string, and grease. 1907 S. E. WHITE Arizona Nights III. iv. 290 We can make little pack trips off in the hills when she gets too hotup there by Deerskin Meadows 'mongst the high peaks. 1990 R. BLOUNT First Hubby 139, I probly would've risked my black *** stridin' in 'mongst a whole bunch of armed ****-fer-sense rednecks.
