I can neither confirm nor deny if there were secret goings-on at the Austin Board of REALTORS® this afternoon, but just stay tuned. I can say that, the last few days have been pretty fun, combined with a lot of effort and good things happening. This afternoon, on my way home, I stopped at the Williamson County Association of REALTORS® Bowling for TREPAC event. I thought the event was from 4 til 6, but it was from some other time until 5:30. I got there just a little bit before the event was over, but just in time to join some of my Williamson County colleagues for a glass of wine in the bar. It was a fun, good time!Corrade -- Verb. to wear or crumble away through abrasion. Over the years, the rushing waters had corraded the riverbanks.
Did You Know? In Latin, rodere means "to gnaw" and radere means "to scrape." The latter word is at the base of both abrade and corrade. Corrade, which carved its niche in the English language during the mid-17th century, is used when something, such as moving water, rubs or scrapes something else away. In contrast, the word corrode, derived from rodere, is fitting when something "eats away" at something else, especially by chemical action. Erode shares that meaning but can also be used to describe abrasive action, much like corrade. As an aside, the gnawing of small animals, such as mice and squirrels, influenced the formation of the noun rodent through rodere.
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