Message-ID: <14475612.1075858927477.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 03:08:00 -0700 (PDT) From: wsmith@wordsmith.org To: linguaphile@wordsmith.org Subject: A.Word.A.Day--pococurante Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Wordsmith X-To: linguaphile X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \SSCOTT5 (Non-Privileged)\Scott, Susan M.\Wordsmith X-Origin: Scott-S X-FileName: SSCOTT5 (Non-Privileged).pst pococurante (po-ko-koo-RAN-tee, -kyoo-) adjective Indifferent, apathetic, nonchalant. noun A careless or indifferent person. [From Italian, poco little + curante, present participle of curare, to care, from Latin, curare, cure, care.] "The only child of an interminably famous literary theorist, and now pococurante chair of the English Department, Hank published one critically acclaimed novel -- `Off the Road' -- 20 years ago." Gail Caldwell, College Bound Richard Russo's Comic/Sad Novel of Learning and Campus Politics, Boston Globe, Jul 13, 1997. This week's theme: words to describe people. ............................................................................ Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. -John Keats, poet (1795-1821) Monday, Apr 9, 2001, our eighth online guest will be Sreenath Sreenivasan, a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism For more details and to join the chat, visit http://wordsmith.org/chat The topic of the chat is: Online Journalism. Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/pococurante.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/pococurante.ram