Let me save you the time to hit the dictionary:
hebdomadal |heb?däm?dl|adjective formalweekly (used esp. of organizations that meet weekly) : forced to eke out a meager living scribbling hebdomadal feuilletons.
ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the sense [lasting seven days] ): from late Latin hebdomadalis, from Greek hebdomas, hebdomad- ‘the number seven, seven days,’ from hepta ‘seven.’
I thought this post would be another of the genre of complaints about the ways in which the internet cripples the spirit of our literary adventures. I wanted to find the weekly equivalent of quotidian. Just because it was quick and dirty, I put weekly into the search box of my Mac dictionary. Lo and behold, it spit out hebdomadal. I was more than impressed. Imagine, I thought, if the web could come up with one such weird and wonderful word, what the hard copy Thesaurus that I’ve carted around with me for the past thirty-plus years would yield. And the answer to that is: bupkis, which means nothing, nada, zilch. So we can thank Al Gore and all the other wizards that created the internets for hebdomadal.
I’ve been cogitating (another fine word) this week on how to return the quotidian to MidLifeBloggers, since that is what those who are expressing opinions say they miss. I thought about a Quotidian Corner, simply because it was alliterative, but really, I don’t have the time to do a daily post. Weekly is more my style–and thus, the search that led to hebdomadal. But much as I love new words, I realize this one doesn’t have that je ne said quois ring to it that one hopes will create some buzz. So perhaps it will just be our secret. When you see hebdomadal in a title, it will be like a little hand waving in the air, saying Jane’s in the house.
This week, I’m using my trek through our Blogroll to bring to your attention some bloggers that are new to us. Relatively.
Go have a look. See if you like them as much as I do.
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