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Friday 25 December 2020

Word To Use Today: gloria!

 The Word Den is all about the joy of words, so how about this word, gloria, the longest word to be found in the English language?

Yes, yes, I know it's only got six letters, but at Christmas, in particular, it can take a heck of a long time to say:


Good fun to carol.

Mind you, perhaps we should be pronouncing it goria...

No L!

(Sorry...)

Word To Use Today: gloria. Gloria in excelsis Deo is the first line of the song the angels sang when announcing the birth of Jesus Christ. It means Glory to God in the Highest.

Interestingly, this rather implies that there must have been at least one Latin scholar among the shepherds.


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