It's the Word of the Day podcast for December 10th.

Today's word is brogue, spelled B-R-O-G-U-E.

Brog is a noun.

A brogue is a low shoe, usually made of leather, that is decorated with small

holes along the sides at the toe, and that usually features a wingtip. Here's the word used

in a sentence from Vogue by Hannah Coates. Paired with a cropped white t-shirt, middy skirt,

and brogues, Gigi Hadid, was the yin to Taylor Swift's

Yang. Did you expect the word brogue to be defined as an Irish accent? We're sure you're not

alone. Brogue has two homographs, that is words that are spelled and in this case pronounced

the same, but have different origins or parts of speech.

The brogue that refers to the shoe comes from the Irish word Bragg and the Scottish Gaelic Bragg

and likely traces back to an old Norse term meaning leg covering. That ancestor is related to an ancestor of the English word, Breach.

Originating in Ireland, the brogue was designed to be a worker's shoe and made from untanned hides.

The accent brogue comes from a different Irish word, which can refer to an accent or speech

impediment,

and translates literally as tight grip.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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