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Aug 7, 2024
This week’s themeLoanwords and loan translations This week’s words machtpolitik dogwatch bridgehead earworm immiseration ![]() ![]()
The Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river in Remagen, Germany. The US Army captured it and established a bridgehead in Mar 1945 during WWII.
Photo: Claude Musgrove / US Army
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PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun: 1. A foothold opening the way for further advance. 2. A fortified position at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy. ETYMOLOGY:
Loan translation of French tête de pont (bridge head). Earliest documented use: 1760. Also see beachhead.
USAGE:
“Nigel Farage takes his first seat in the Commons on his eighth attempt
... a bridgehead to cajole Conservatives that lurching further to the
right is their future.” Mick O’Reilly; The UK’s Future Begins Today; Gulf News (Dubai); Jul 9, 2024. See more usage examples of bridgehead in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason. -James
Randi, magician and scientific skeptic (7 Aug 1928-2020)
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