Very Funny DUI Test with a Very Talented Drunk

Although the officer here asked him to recite the alphabet backwards. He did it somewhat easily. Not many people have problems with the abecedarian way they were taught in school . But to recite it backwards would be tough to do sober....... Heck, it is hard for me to pronounce this " Word of the day " ! Matter of fact, this is the only time I will probably ever use this word.... LOL !

Word of the Day : March 6, 2019

abecedarian

adjective ay-bee-see-DAIR-ee-un

Definition :

1 a : of or relating to the alphabet.

b : alphabetically arranged.

2 : rudimentary.

Did You Know ?

The history of abecedarian is as simple as ABC—literally. The term's Late Latin ancestor, abecedārius (which meant "alphabetical"), was created as a combination of the letters A, B, C, and D, plus the adjective suffix -arius; you can hear the echo of that origin in the pronunciation of the English term (think "ABC-darian"). In its oldest documented English uses in the early 1600s, abecedarian was a noun meaning "one learning the rudiments of something"; it specifically referred to someone who was learning the alphabet. The adjective began appearing in English texts a few decades after the noun.


Examples :

The children recited an abecedarian chant, beginning with "A is for apple" and ending with "Z is for zebra."

"Aficionados of Sue Grafton's popular detective novels starring Kinsey Millhone will not be disappointed by S is for Silence, Grafton's 19th book in her abecedarian series launched in 1982 with A is for Alibi." — Jan Collins, The State (Columbia, South Carolina), 11 Dec. 2005.