Wordie: Coriaceous: Comments

Comment by chained_bear, 8 months ago

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:02:34 +0000

"'As you see,' said Redfern, 'the skin is healing—little inflammation: bone almost entirely covered. Earlier floggings had rendered it coriaceous. We treat with tepid sponging and wool-fat.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 327

Another (less grisly) usage note on durian.

Comment by seanahan, 9 months ago

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:12:43 +0000

What I like to do with words like this is spend a minute or two enumerating the different conceivable pronunciations, and then guessing which one is correct. I got this one right.

Comment by chained_bear, 9 months ago

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:08:31 +0000

"He certainly has a private network of informants, some of them in France ... But he is a difficult, coriaceous animal and if this agent does not succeed quite soon, success is improbable..."
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 61