Iris Graville's Blog – 4th mo. 2013 Archive (1)

Writing the Quotidian

Quotidian.  I read that word in an essay I critiqued during my first semester in my MFA in writing program. I had to look it up.  Ironically, it’s a fancy word for something that’s not, well, very fancy.  Here’s how the New Oxford American Dictionary defines it:

 

quotidian |kwōˈtidēən|

adjective [ attrib. ]

  • of or occurring every day; daily : the car sped noisily off through the quotidian…
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Added by Iris Graville on 4th mo. 19, 2013 at 3:28pm — No Comments

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