[Loch-Ruadh] word of the day

[Jane Sitton]

The Word of the Day for October 25 is:  vatic * \VAT-ik\ * (adjective):
prophetic, oracular

Example sentence:  Andy's years of experience bird-watching have given him a
vatic ability to name the precise day each bird will appear in the spring.

Did you know?  Some people say only thin lines separate poetry, prophecy,
and madness.  We don't know if that's generally true, but it is in the case
of "vatic."  The adjective derives directly from the Latin word "vates,"
meaning "seer" or "prophet."  But that Latin root is in turn distantly
related to an Old English word for "poetry," an Old High German word for
"madness," and an Old Irish word for "seer" or "poet."


heh heh, I'm not going there....

Madelina