Strange and Interesting Words #1 - Meretricious, Dilettante, Célébrité

in writing •  7 years ago  (edited)
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nice post, meretricious: my new favourite word!

It does sound cool, doesn't it?!
Thanks for the visit.

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Dilettante I like that. Basically me at every sport.

Thanks for the visit. I like the word too, but I'm glad it doesn't normally describe me.

You only need a cédille before a, o or u since e, i and y preceded by c is necessarily soft. Don’t worry I may not be about french but I’m often such a dilettante.

I stand well-corrected on that one, but it's still required in the word façade in order to make the c soft.

I have corrected the post to reflect this fact. Thanks for your attention.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

@viking-venture - You have meretriciously lured me to this post knowing my weakness for attractive new words! (I hope that works or I fear I may have harmed your character)

hahaha - I only decided to do this post on the spur-of-the-moment thinking about the cool words I'd used on this story years ago - and had forgotten them again! Time to expand the vocabulaire again. (Maybe even without French, lol.)