Thursday, November 21, 2019

2019 - Day 325 - Thursday...Pariah...

I did not realize it at the time, but this photo looks like a winter snow day in the Detroit suburbs where I grew up. Except for the What-A-Burger. And the fact that it is not snow, it is just central Texas, early in the morning, after a light spritz of rain. Really early in the morning, and after a really light spritz of rain. It was 81 degrees in Austin today, compare that to the below freezing temperatures we had last week, it is just kind of crazy. We don't have the air conditioning going in the house, the thermostat is set on 'heat,' but we aren't using that either. We are supposed to have a cold front come through overnight, and lower the temperatures by about five degrees and bring a little bit of rain, but back up in to the 70s over the weekend. I don't know about the rest of you, but I am looking forward to the short work week next week.

Pariah -- Noun. 1. a member of a low caste of southern India. 2. outcast. The senator's critical remarks about the direction of his party have made him somewhat of a pariah in Washington.

Did You Know? Pariah comes from Tamil, which is the language of the Tamil Nadu state of India and of parts of Sri Lanka. The origin of pariah is the Tamil word paraiyan, which literally means "drummer." The word was also the name for a member of a particular low caste in southern India. Members of this caste were sometimes responsible for the tasking of beating drums at festivals. Pariah was originally the English rendering of the name of that specific caste. It eventually was extended to denote a member of any low Hindu caste, and finally was used more broadly, as a synonym of "outcast."

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