This week's theme: words related to pirates. avast (uh-VAST) interjection
Stop (used as a command to stop or desist). [From Dutch hou vast (hold fast), from houd vast.] -Guest Wordsmith John (Ol' Chumbucket) Baur (chumbucketATtalklikeapirate.com) "The best part, though, is the music. It dips and swells in the game right along with the action. Avast, there's treasure here!" Vance Jordan and Melissa L. Jones; Madden NFL Steps Up the Play; Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Aug 27, 2006. This newsletter is made possible in part by: Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?code=qt4&ad=aw Get down to brass tacks, put in your two cents. Try Derivation, a fascinating game about word and phrase origins. A great gift! http://entspire.com ............................................................................ Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. -Jimmy Carter, 39th US President, Nobel laureate (1924- ) Looking for word/quotation archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Unsubscribe, change address, etc: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/avast.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/avast.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/avast.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
