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Curling club members lead newcomers through some Unusual, archaic stretching and warmup exercises before hitting the ice. words are rarely Curling uses upper-body strength for vigorous sweeping of the ice and leg and arm muscles in throwing rocks. used but remain in the lexicon NGLISH HAS hundreds of thousands of words in Eits lexicon, as witnessed by the Oxford English Dictio- nary, the definitive dictionary of the English language. Many are obscure or un- usual. How many of the fol- lowing words do you recog- nize: lygerastia, oculopania, qualtagh, scolecopha- geous, tibialo- concupiscent, viriginity, aba- Marsha Hunt/Herald cinate, batra- After a teammate hurls a curling stone, sweepers briskly chophagous, sweep a path in front of it to increase its speed by melting cheiloproclitic, the ice to create a slightly wet, slippery surface. John Zavinski/Herald and my fa- Jack vorite unusual Smith word: zenz- A Word izenzizenzic? with You Some obscure words crop up PITTSBURGH only in crosswords and some- times in the mouths of insuf- ferable people who like to show how smart they are. Chances are you have never Wanna-be encountered any of them Some have a familiar ring. The sound of viriginity, for in- stance, would lead most of us to its meaning: “masculine qualities in a woman.” Or, tib- ialoconcupiscent, which holds John Zavinski/Herald Rock stars in it the common word concu- Curlers use their brooms to signal a shot target in the piscent, which means “strong bull’s-eye-like “house” that curling stones are slid toward sexual desire.” Put tibialo in Olympics fuel surge of interest in quirky sport of curling from about 100 feet away at the other end of the ice. front of it and you get “having a lascivious interest in watch- By John Zavinski mugs of imported Molson ing a woman put on stock- Herald Director of Graphics beer. My digital-video record- ings.” No doubt you know & Technology er peaked at 98 percent full what it means when someone and overwrote most every- says, “My boyfriend has a foot Speed skaters flew by half- thing else I had saved. fetish.” If he had a lip fetish noticed on the large-screen While the United States he would be cheiloproclitic. I TV in a local tavern as my girl- men’s team took a bronze am surprised that lygerastia is friend and I joined some other medal in 2006, this year nei- an unusual word, for its mean- couples for drinks on the sec- ther the men’s nor women’s ing is certainly not unusual: ond night of the Winter team were worthy of anything “the condition of one who is Olympic Games. more than lead or zinc, both only amorous when the lights Eventually, the conversation finishing with pathetic 2-7 are out.” If you practice oculo- turned to the Games. records in preliminary play, plania, you are guilty of “let- “What’s that one weird which melted any hopes of ting your eyes wander while sport,” one spouse asked, “the even competing for the gold. assessing someone’s charms.” one with ...” Heck, I could do better. Ap- The “z” word above strikes “With brooms?” I respond- parently that was also on the my fancy because it has many ed. “Why, you are speaking of minds of nearly 1,000 others repetitions of the final alpha- none other than the honorable who during Olympics week- bet letter. I wonder, could its sport of curling, which com- ends swamped the Pittsburgh inventor have had a speech bines the best aspects of bowl- Curling Club’s learn-to-curl impediment? In mathematics ing and housekeeping.” I then nights at their home ice at the it refers to “a number raised continued with how I’d be- Robert Morris University Is- to the eighth power.” (Hmm, come a fan during past Winter land Sports Center on Neville don’t you think it should have Games and looked forward to Island, west of Pittsburgh. not six but eight z’s?) watching the current competi- I headed there last Satur- Some unusual words might tion. day for the second of two make you wonder why we Little could I have imagined nights aimed “to get as many need them. For example, aba- that two Saturdays later I folks on the ice as possible cinate means “to blind by put- would find myself on the ice, during the Olympics,” as the ting a hot copper basin near broom in hand, learning the club community-outreach co- someone’s eyes.” Someone game in person. ordinator Dan Bliss wrote by who eats frogs is batra- My familiarity with the e-mail before the event. It chophagous; one who eats quirky ice sport goes back to would have been hard to get worms is scolecophagous. childhood, where the dozen more people onto the ice. channels on our cable system For those who had been Some unusual words in Warren, Pa., included one glued to Olympic coverage, might make you won- or two from Ontario, Canada, the event had traits of those der why we need where the sport is second only fantasy baseball or guitar them. For example, to hockey. On Saturday morn- camps, where you get to be ings, between cartoon shows, something of your dreams. abacinate means one channel would invariably The line of participants Marsha Hunt/Herald “to blind by putting a show grainy, black-and-white snaked through the ice com- Above, The Her- hot copper basin near coverage of curling competi- plex, and it took two hours to ald’s John Zavinski someone’s eyes.” tion – some kind of game in- reach the head of the line for concentrates as he volving ice, throwing some- a half-hour of ice time. Club prepares to “deliver” thing and old men with straw members passed out candy a curling stone. The The creation of new words, kitchen brooms sweeping and, as if they were Canadi- shot was more suc- neologisms, is ongoing. We in- madly, perhaps to create some ans, apologized profusely for cessful than his first vent words as we see the need, or we do it for fun. Take kind of air whoosh. My broth- the delay. attempt moments octomom, for example. Who ers and I paid it little heed, Once at the head of the earlier (at left), waiting instead for Rocky and line, small groups got a quick knew we would need a word when he landed for a woman who gave birth Bullwinkle to come on. overview and were led in spread out flat on But nowadays I can’t seem stretching exercises. to octuplets? Will it drop into the ice after failing to get enough of seeing it, es- Then it was off to the ice in obscurity a generation from pecially since it’s only on TV groups of seven to 10. We to hold the proper now? The New York Times, every four years. I find it ad- learned how to deliver a rock leg and feet Sunday, Dec. 20, cited the dicting; I spent every evening by pushing off from the positions. word aporkalypse, no doubt during the Games catching up “hack” – a track-like starting borrowed from apocalypse, as on hours of recorded coverage block – with our left foot slid- “undue worry in response to while appropriately quaffing See ROCK STARS, page C-5 swine flu.” Many obscure or unusual words were in common use at one time. We label them ar- chaic. Archaic words are old forms that survive in our un- derstanding but are not gener- ally used today. Perhaps the best-known ar- chaic word in English is thou, the old singular form of you. Shakespeare’s plays, as any bewildered school boy or girl will attest, are full of words See UNUSUAL, page C-5 Inside 6 ODD BW herald 091228jz YELLOW MAGENTA CYAN BLACK 0% 5% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 95% 100% Next page >

www.sharonherald.com THE HERALD, Sharon, Pa., Sunday, March 7, 2010 C-5 Rock stars Unusual Olympics fuel surge Rarely used words of interest in curling remain in the lexicon from page C-1 from page C-1 ing on a shoeprint-shaped that have gone out of use. Teflon slider. Never stand “Alack, I am afraid they have straight up on the slider, we awaked, and ’tis not done” were warned. You’ll fall flat on (Macbeth, Act II, Scene II). the ice. “Up, gentlemen: you shall see The crouched position was sport anon.” (Ford to Sir supposed to rest one fifth of Hugh Evans and others, The body weight on a broom Merry Wives of Windsor). tucked under the left shoulder More often than not, we and the rest on the 42-pound guess the meaning from the granite “rock” that we were context. According to one sliding. AP count, Shakespeare used six- My first attempt landed me Germany’s Andy Kapp, left, and Daniel Herberg, discuss a shot in a match against China in men’s curling at the Vancou- ty-two words we consider ar- flat on my face – my girlfriend chaic today. laughing hysterically nearby ver 2010 Olympics . As it stands, the two rocks with light-colored handles would each score a point for that team because Everyone of a certain age while trying to take pictures. I they are closer to the center of the target rings than any of the darker-color rocks. has words that to a younger failed to keep my left leg per- generation seem old-fash- pendicular to the ice and be- the moving rock – to team- ioned, such as flibbertigibbet hind the rock. A later attempt mates’ shrieks of “Yup... yup (a silly scatterbrained person), during a mini game was more Yup YUP!” or “Hurry, hard!” – Just what the heck is curling? tomfoolery (foolish or nonsen- successful. somehow watching the direc- It looks like shuffleboard on sical behavior), and hullabaloo The mini game was preced- tion to the target while grace- ice. But curling is much more. (a great noise or commotion). ed by shaking of hands and fully stepping over previous Add a little bocce, the physics According to the web site wishing the opponents “good rocks. of billiards and the strategy of “Word Spy,” hullabaloo began curling.” It’s a gentlemanly For us, it was all we could chess. its life as the word halloo, sport like golf – no trash talk do to lauch a rock. There was The U.S. Curling Associa- meaning to urge or incite with or trying to distract your oppo- no time to try to teach direc- tion says it began in 16th-cen- shouts. Then, by a process nent as in a basketball foul tion, force or curling. En tury Scotland on frozen lochs called rhyming reduplication, shot. During the Olympics, route, a club member went and marshes. It emigrated the balloo part was added to the sold-out crowds exceeding outside the rules and occa- with the Scots to Canada form halloo-balloo, which 5,000, many new to the sport, sionally nudged the missile on around 1759 and to the United eventually morphed into hulla- had to be cautioned to restrain its way with his foot. States around 1832. It’s partic- baloo. their noise. My team lost 1-0 in the ab- ularly popular today in Canada We know that words com- For those who would pooh breviated game. I was proud and the upper Midwest. mon to speakers of a language pooh curling as unworthy of to be able to answer the ques- Teams of four take turns living in one country may be being called a sport, my two tion of who won and why. sliding what look like 42- obscure to speakers of that days of aching rib-cage mus- Meanwhile, I’ve got the pound granite tea kettles language living elsewhere. As cles begs to differ. The aero- fever. If I can get over the across a 146-foot sheet of ice. AP Oscar Wilde put it, “We have bic burst of ice sweeping left falling-on-my-face part, this The surface is specially pre- With her team’s sweepers at the ready, USA’s Debbie Mc- everything in common with my out-of-shape, 51-year-old could be a workout and hobby pared with sprinkled water Cormick delivers a rock during a women’s curling match America nowadays except, of body panting for air; think rap- I can learn to love. So I signed droplets that freeze into a against Russia at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Both U.S. course, language.” id snow shoveling of a hillside up for future, smaller classes raised, pebbled surface. This teams performed poorly this year after the men had won parking lot. and think I’ll pursue joining reduces friction between the bronze in 2006. Jack Smith is a retired high Sweeping involves a broom. the club when the season re- curling rocks and the ice. school and college English More of a mop, really, what sumes in the fall. The added factor curling Some knock others around stant. One well-aimed shot can teacher. appeared to be a dry canvas- In the meantime, I still have has over shuffleboard or pool or out of play like billiard knock out several others, with like nylon pad, not bristles or, days’ worth of recorded is that once a rock is thrown, balls, others are planted as a sharp, hollow pop sound. in the old days, straw. Olympics curling to savor, teammates with brooms can “guards” to protect rocks in Strategies include deliber- A must read The sweeping friction of a something that, like a comet, accelerate it as needed by the house behind them. To ately not scoring with the last for boomers moving rock ever-so-slightly won’t return to the airwaves sweeping vigorously in its get behind a guard, the player rock thrown in an end if you melts the ice to let the rock for four years. path. This melts the ice ever adds a slight twist during de- can’t get two or more points and beyond... slide faster and straighter. so slightly, giving a faster ride. livery. The gentle rotation or letting the other team only The “curling” part, by the The eight-year-old, 130-mem- The target is a 12-foot eventually causes it to “curl” get one point, because the way, comes from the tech- ber Pittsburgh Curling Club bull’s-eye of rings at the far off the straight trajectory. team that scores in the cur- nique of launching the rock holds periodic newcomer events end, known as “the house.” Only one team scores in rent end gives the other team with a bit of a twist so that it and league play from fall The goal is to land a stone as each end. The team with a “the hammer” – last at-bat, so spins slightly en route, eventu- through spring. Web: pitts- close as possible to the center, stone closest to the button to speak – in the next end. ally arcing into a different burghcurlingclub.com; e-mail: or “button.” Eight or 10 “ends” gets a point for it and any oth- Curling became an Olympic path, often behind other learn2curl@pittsburghcurling (innings) constitute a game, er stone in the house closer sport again in 1998 after a Watch for the March “guard” rocks. club.com which takes about two hours. than their opponent’s closest brief appearance in 1924. issue free inside In the Olympics, players U.S. Curling Association: Teams alternate with each stone. There also are leagues for The Herald March 17 miraculously swept to control www.curlingrocks.net player throwing two rocks. Fortunes change in an in- wheelchair-bound curlers.

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