canada - Vocab Rehab - Word of the Day
(E?)(L?) http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/headlinescan.htmlDie "National Post" (Canada) bietet täglich einen "Wortartikel unter der Überschrift "Vocab Rehab" an.
Ich nehme an, dass diese die Abkürzung für "Vocabulary Rehabilitation" sein soll und das Ziel hat den (öffentlichen) "Wortschatz wiederherzustellen".
Auf jeden Fall gibt es auch immer etymologische Hinweise.
Die Suche nach "Vocab Rehab" liefert leider immer nur die Treffer der letzten sieben Tage.
Und so ergab die Suche am 01.08.2004:
Results for your search for "Vocab Rehab " for the last 7 days from the National Post.
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- Vocab Rehab (National Post) - The Latin word "umbrella", for "sunshade," is the diminutive form of umbra, meaning "shade," and provides the basis for modern umbrella (1610), which originally...
- Vocab Rehab (National Post) - RICE A prominent ingredient in many cooking traditions is "rice". The word comes to English (1234) as ris and rys from Middle French, from Greek oryza, ...
- Vocab Rehab (National Post) - WILD RICE The term "wild rice" (1748) first appears in English in the publication of Henry Ellis's A Voyage to Hudson's Bay ... in the years 1746 and 1747...
- Vocab Rehab (National Post) - A competition for athletes with physical disabilities arose following the Second World War, in 1948. "Paralympics" (1953), sometimes called Para-Olympics...
- Vocab Rehab (National Post) - The term "athlete" (1425) arose in reference to competitors in the public games of ancient Greece and Rome. Athletic (1636) has a similar original application...
- Vocab Rehab (National Post) - "Triathlon" (1973) is a competition in which each entrant competes in swimming (1500 metres), cycling (40 kilometres), and running (10 kilometres), in one...
- Vocab Rehab (National Post) - "CANOEING" - Canadian and U.S. paddlers demonstrated double-blading (the forerunner of modern kayaking) and Canadian (also called single-blading) in the 1924 Olympic...
Leider habe ich keinen Hinweis auf einen Newsletter zu "Vocab Rehab" gefunden.