anent

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The Word of the Day for November 25 is: 

anent   \uh-NENT\   preposition
          : about, concerning 

Example sentence:
          “Anent the article about the recent political scandal: we’ve heard 
enough already!” began Jamil’s letter to the editor.

Did you know?
          "Anent" looks like a rather old-fashioned word. It is, in fact, very 
old (an earlier sense of the word can be found in _Beowulf_, from approximately 
800 A.D.), and at one point it was almost obsolete. It had nearly died out by 
the 17th century, but it was revived in the 19th century. Various usage 
commentators have decried "anent" as "affected" and "archaic." It is not 
archaic, however. Although “anent” is rarely found in speech, plenty of 
examples of current use can be found in written sources. Dead words do 
occasionally rise from the grave, and "anent" is one of them.





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