Words that sent Americans to the dictionary most often in 2023 were pyrrhic, sustainability, saleratus (main ingredient in baking powder), oligarchy, uncanny, canny, blasé, and metaphor.
Metaphors are stronger comparisons that renounce connectors, such as like and as, and directly equate one thing to another. The characteristics of one thing “carry over.”
Origin: Greek meta, meaning “over,” and pherō, meaning “to carry.”
Example: recusant Shakespeare’s As You Like It -- “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”
“Willie, though I didn’t really like your plays, excepting Julius Caesar, you were syntactical.”
Metaphors are stronger comparisons that renounce connectors, such as like and as, and directly equate one thing to another. The characteristics of one thing “carry over.”
Origin: Greek meta, meaning “over,” and pherō, meaning “to carry.”
Example: recusant Shakespeare’s As You Like It -- “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”
“Willie, though I didn’t really like your plays, excepting Julius Caesar, you were syntactical.”
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