

Aug 3, 2017 This week’s theme

Places that became verbs



This week’s words

birminghamize

barbados

solecize

locarnize

debunk



Foreign ministers Gustav Stresemann (Germany), Austen Chamberlain (Britain), and Aristide Briand (France) in Locarno Photo: Wikipedia Commons Places that became verbs A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



locarnize PRONUNCIATION: (lo-KAHR-nyz)

MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To bring about peace or settle a disagreement by negotiation.

ETYMOLOGY: After Locarno, Switzerland, where in Oct 1925, Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy met to settle post-WWI disputes and concluded the Locarno Treaties. Earliest documented use: 1925.

USAGE: “Pilsudski ... manifested a repugnance to have the military convention locarnized.”

Piotr Stefan Wandycz; The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926-1936; Princeton University Press; 1988.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. -P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014)





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