I’m a long time subscriber to Anu Garg’s wonderful ‘Word of the Day’ blog.. Every day I either learn a new word or feel smug for knowing it already.. both are pleasurable sensations 🙂

Todays word was a treat.. It’s the name of our younger Dog Satori…

Satori.. means sudden enlightenment..

great name for a cute and loving dog

great way to start the day !

with Anu Garg

The writer H.L. Mencken once said, “A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.”

He might as well be talking about a community, a culture, or a country.

The reason English is such a rich language is that it’s not afraid to adopt words from other places. It has welcomed words from everywhere. If you speak English, you know parts of at least a hundred different languages.

This week we’ll see five words that came to English from Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, Hindi, and Italian.

satori

(suh-TOR-ee)

Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, / Who loved thee so fondly as he? / He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, / And joined in thy innocent glee. -Margaret Courtney, poet (1822-1862)