SIMULACRUM
Wild Word Friday!
SIMULACRUM means a counterfeit image, a travesty or sham.
The simula portion of SIMULACRUM has ancient roots in the Latin word simul, which means together with or likewise. Crum comes to us from the Anglo-Saxon, crump or crumb. Both versions of the word mean bent or crooked. (Did you know that in some Scottish and British dialects a cow with a crooked horn is called a crummie?)
Put simul and crum together and you have SIMULACRUM, a word that means like something bent or crooked, or a travesty. As in: My attempts to duplicate my mother-in-law’s wonderful dinner roll recipe have always resulted in a pan full of SIMULACRUMs! (Definitely a travesty!) Therefore, I buy my dinner rolls.
Do you have any SIMULACRUMs in your life?
Blessings!
Sue
(Photos from Wikipedia.)
Oh, yes, and does anybody have any idea why we call dinner rolls, dinner rolls? I really don’t know.
Thank you, Jackie! I love to search for words to use and if you ever have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them. You have such a huge advantage being multi-ligual!
how do you come up with these unusual words Sue, from a banknote to a dinner roll. funny!
I always wondered why rolls are called dinner rolls. In Ireland the ones with the crust are called crusty rolls and in Holland harde bolletjes (hard balls).