Chrissy gets the word of the day email to her. She IMed me the
word "turophile", because we are both lovers of cheese. I happen to
mention I used the word "Deprecated" in the class I was teaching the
other day and just about everyone in the class looked at me like I
had two heads. I know it not a word used in common conversation, but
I thought it was at least a pretty common programming term. Then we
got into a conversation about how minuscule most people vocabularies
are these day.

Well to broaden everyone vocabulary a bit, well at least the people
who read the Yahoo fencing club group I will share with you these two
words, in a special summer time edition of Word of the Day.

turophile \TOOR-uh-fyle\ noun

: a connoisseur of cheese : a cheese fancier

Example sentence:
The new store is a turophile's heaven, offering more than 2,000
varieties of cheese.

Did you know?
Are you stuck on Stilton or gaga for Gouda? Do you crave Camembert?
If so, you just might be a turophile, the ultimate cheese lover. From
an irregular formation of the Greek word for cheese, "tyros," plus
the English "-phile," meaning "lover" (itself a descendant of the
Greek "-philos," meaning "loving"), "turophile" first named cheese
aficionados as early as 1938. It was in the 1950s, however, that the
term really caught the attention of the American public, when Clifton
Fadiman (writer, editor, and former radio host)
introduced "turophile" to readers of his eloquent musings on the
subject of cheese.


Main Entry: dep·re·cate
Pronunciation: 'de-pri-"kAt
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -cat·ed; -cat·ing
Etymology: Latin deprecatus, past participle of deprecari to avert by
prayer, from de- + precari to pray -- more at PRAY
1 a archaic : to pray against (as an evil) b : to seek to avert
<deprecate the wrath ... of the Roman people -- Tobias Smollett>
2 : to express disapproval of
3 a : PLAY DOWN : make little of <speaks five languages ... but
deprecates this facility -- Time> b : BELITTLE, DISPARAGE <the most
reluctantly admired and least easily deprecated of ... novelists --
New Yorker>
- dep·re·cat·ing·ly /-"kA-ti[ng]-lE/ adverb
- dep·re·ca·tion /"de-pri-'kA-sh&n/ noun

Example sentence:
Bruce still teaches his fencing students the ballestra even though
the move is deprecated by most of the modern fencing community.