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🗓️ 13 April 2025
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 13, 2025 is:
reminisce • \rem-uh-NISS\ • verb
To reminisce is to talk, think, or write about things that happened in the past.
// After the official reunion dinner, the old friends gathered at a pub to reminisce about their high school days, now long past.
Examples:
“Our parents would reminisce about their past happiness and point to the oversized photographic portrait taken of them at the county fair sometime in the mid-1970s, before we were born.” — Nora Lange, Us Fools, 2024
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Do you remember, say, the 21st night of September? Fantastic. Earth, Wind, and Fire does, too, on their classic hit from 1978, “September.” More than remember, the band reminisces—that is, they share details and express feelings about what they remember: dancing, a bell ringing, souls singing, et al. Reminisce distinguishes itself from words like remember and recollect by implying a casual recalling of experiences long past, often with a sense of nostalgia. Reminisce and its relatives reminiscence and reminiscent all trace back to the Latin verb reminisci, meaning “remember.” Reminisci in turn shares roots with mens, the Latin word for “mind.”
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0:00.0 | It's the Word of the Day podcast for April 13th. |
0:11.0 | Today's word is Reminis, spelled R-E-M-I-N-I-S-C-E. Reminis is a verb. To reminisce is to talk, think, or write about things that happened in the |
0:22.1 | past. Here's the word used in a sentence from Us Fools by Nora Lange. Our parents would |
0:29.6 | reminisce about their past happiness and point to the oversized photographic portrait taken of |
0:34.8 | them at the county fair sometime in the mid-1970s before we were born. |
0:40.7 | Do you remember, say, the 21st night of September? Fantastic. Earth, Wind and Fire does, too, |
0:47.1 | on their classic hit from 1978 September. More than remember, the band reminiscences, |
0:53.3 | that is, they share details and express feelings about what they remember, dancing, a bell ringing, souls, singing, etc. |
1:01.8 | Reminisc distinguishes itself from words like remember and recollect by implying a casual recalling of experiences long past, often with a sense of nostalgia. Reminis and its |
1:14.0 | relatives reminiscence and reminiscent all traced back to the Latin verb Reminiski, meaning |
1:20.2 | remember. Reminiski, in turn, shares roots with men's, the Latin word for mind. |
1:27.2 | With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokoloski. |
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