*sigh* It's that time of year, isn't it... The time where you walk outside to the brisk air, only to slip on ice. The time of shaking all the hoarfrost off the plants in your garden. The time of gift giving, but more importantly (and expensively), gift buying. You watch your wallet slowly cripple with hunger, but to no avail. It moans for more cash, but, shame, you spent all your money on presents, you poor, impecunious being.
Hoarfrost:
Mom: Ice that forms instantaneously on muddy ground
Dad:
Kevin: Frost that only occurs on trees
Justin: Frost that only occurs on a horse
Okay. Close your eyes. Now imagine frost on the ground. Imagine frost on the window. Imagine Frosty the Snowman. Imagine Frosty in a bikini. Now open your eyes. I'm on a centaur. This blog is brought to you by Old Spice.
Anyway, back to frost. Don't you always feel so bad for your plants that are all outside in the snow, and they're always covered in that really cool frost? That frost is known as Hoarfrost (left), and it's a less common version of "regular" frost. What's so special about Hoarfrost is that it comes about by water in the air freezing to the currently-frozen plant. When the wind blows the moisturized air into the ice, some of that water in the air gets frozen to the plant and it builds and it builds and it builds and it builds. When freezing temperatures converge with fog, however, the result is a phenomenon called "Rime Formations" (below)
The word Hoarfrost, though it has no clear etymology, appears in the Bible.
"He giveth snow like wool; he spreadeth the hoarfrost like ashes" -KJV Psalm 147:16.
Impecunious:
Mom: Having no taste, tasteless
Dad:
Kevin: Utterly forgettable
Justin: Disturbing
Don't you hate talking to your friends (or strangers at the bus stop) and then have to explain that you have no money, but you don't want to say the word "broke"? Well now, for the low low price of $19.99, you can use the word Impecunious to avoid saying that your pockets are hole-y. Because they are synonyms after all.
The word Impecunious comes to us from none other than the Latin-speakers. Yes, the Romans and their many words... They obviously didn't want Jesus, Alexander the Great, and Cleopatra knowing their weakness of no-money syndrome, so they made this word that others wouldn't understand.*
Anyway, the Latin word pecunious means money, and that combined with im-, meaning not, you now have the word that is synonymous with Not Money. Language!
*That's all a lie. None of those lived in the same time period. I'm funny.
Hoarfrost:
Mom: Ice that forms instantaneously on muddy ground
Dad:
Kevin: Frost that only occurs on trees
Justin: Frost that only occurs on a horse
Okay. Close your eyes. Now imagine frost on the ground. Imagine frost on the window. Imagine Frosty the Snowman. Imagine Frosty in a bikini. Now open your eyes. I'm on a centaur. This blog is brought to you by Old Spice.
Anyway, back to frost. Don't you always feel so bad for your plants that are all outside in the snow, and they're always covered in that really cool frost? That frost is known as Hoarfrost (left), and it's a less common version of "regular" frost. What's so special about Hoarfrost is that it comes about by water in the air freezing to the currently-frozen plant. When the wind blows the moisturized air into the ice, some of that water in the air gets frozen to the plant and it builds and it builds and it builds and it builds. When freezing temperatures converge with fog, however, the result is a phenomenon called "Rime Formations" (below)
The word Hoarfrost, though it has no clear etymology, appears in the Bible.
"He giveth snow like wool; he spreadeth the hoarfrost like ashes" -KJV Psalm 147:16.
Impecunious:
Mom: Having no taste, tasteless
Dad:
Kevin: Utterly forgettable
Justin: Disturbing
Don't you hate talking to your friends (or strangers at the bus stop) and then have to explain that you have no money, but you don't want to say the word "broke"? Well now, for the low low price of $19.99, you can use the word Impecunious to avoid saying that your pockets are hole-y. Because they are synonyms after all.
The word Impecunious comes to us from none other than the Latin-speakers. Yes, the Romans and their many words... They obviously didn't want Jesus, Alexander the Great, and Cleopatra knowing their weakness of no-money syndrome, so they made this word that others wouldn't understand.*
Anyway, the Latin word pecunious means money, and that combined with im-, meaning not, you now have the word that is synonymous with Not Money. Language!
*That's all a lie. None of those lived in the same time period. I'm funny.
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