26 October 2018
susurration
[soo-suh-rey-shuh n]
noun
1. a soft murmur; whisper.
Origin of susurration
Middle English, Late Latin
1350-1400; Middle English < Late Latin susurrātiōn- (stem of susurrātiō), equivalent to susurrāt(us) (past participle of susurrāre; see susurrus, -ate1) + -iōn- -ion
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Historical Examples
His own name, pronounced in the utmost compression of susurration, they say, he catches at a quarter furlong interval.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb
Charles Lamb
If he had read his Biffin he would have known that the correct terms are a ” susurration of sparrows” and a “pop of weasels.”
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 9, 1914
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Word Origin and History for susurration
n.
“whisper, murmur,” c.1400, from Latin susurrationem (nominative susurratio), from past participle stem of susurrare, from susurrus “murmur, whisper,” a reduplication of the PIE imitative base *swer- (2) “to buzz, whisper” (cf. Sanskrit svarati “sounds, resounds,” Greek syrinx “flute,” Latin surdus “dull, mute,” Old Church Slavonic svirati “to whistle,” Lithuanian surmo “pipe, shawm,” German schwirren “to buzz,” Old English swearm “swarm”).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Today’s quote
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.
– Robert Kennedy
On this day
26 October 1863 – Football Association forms in England, standardising the rules of soccer.
26 October 1881 – Gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, the most famous gunfight in the Wild West. It is believed the gunfight lasted around 30 seconds and was between outlaws Billy Clanton, Ike Clanton, Billy Claiborne, Tom McLaury and Frank McLaury and lawmen Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp, Morgan Earp, Doc Holliday. Three of the outlaws were killed, Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury and Frank McLaury. The gunfight has been immortalised in a number of movies and songs.
26 October 1917 – birth of Felix the Cat, legendary cartoon character.
26 October 1940 – Brisbane’s beer riot shuts down the CBD, with trams and traffic brought to a standstill as hundreds of soldiers and civilians take to the streets protesting against the 8pm hotel closing time. Although 8pm had been the closing time for years, it hadn’t been enforced until this time when temperance organisations pressured the government. As the hotels were forced to close by police, hundreds of drinkers poured out of the hotels and into the street attacking trams, traffic and kicking in doors and windows of nearby businesses. The angry mob stormed down Queen Street chanting ‘roll out the barrel, we want beer’. Some of them kicked in the doors of the Grand Central Hotel in Ann Street and stole a beer barrel, which they managed to crack open. Civilian and military police were brought in and the riot was finally quelled in the early hours of the next morning.