This week's theme: words with color as metaphors. redbrick (RED-brik) adjective
Lacking prestige. [The term usually describes universities. A redbrick university is one built in the UK after WWII, as opposed to the older prestigious institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge. The term is mostly used in the UK. A contrasting term in the US is Ivy League. An Ivy League university is one of several in the northeastern US that have high prestige and a reputation for scholastic achievement. The term alludes to the age of the universities reflected in the ivy that festoons the outside walls of the buildings on campus.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=redbrick -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "To date, the novel that has done most to make [David] Lodge's name as a writer of fiction has been Changing Places, a funny study of two English professors -- one from a dowdy English redbrick university, the other from a thinly disguised Berkeley." Nicholas Pashley; Arthurian Academics; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Jul 7, 1984. This newsletter is made possible in part by: "Edges" by Leora Skolkin-Smith, Jerusalem Through A Young Girl's Eyes. Edited by Grace Paley, Soon to be a feature film. http://leoraskolkinsmith.com orijinz is getting rave reviews! "I love this game!" "So much Fun" "infections" "Great, great, GREAT word game!" $14.95. http://entspire.com ............................................................................ The price we pay for money is paid in liberty. -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894) Share the magic of words. Send a gift sub: http://wordsmith.org/awad/gift.html Remove, change, or subscribe address: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/redbrick.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/redbrick.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/redbrick.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
