Word of the Day for Tuesday, December 6, 2011
weald \weeld\, noun:
1. Wooded or uncultivated country.
2. A region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.
In a shocking new scientific development, it has been discovered that there is, indeed, an alternate parallel universe that mimics much of our world, not unlike the episodes seen recently on the show "Fringe". In a dramatic glimpse into that world, the scientists somehow provided our world with a video of the other world in which the alternate B.O. was seen strolling through a weald while talking with his advisers about his re-election campaign. The following transcript of that conversation follows: "OK, our conservative agenda has worked splendidly these last three years. By getting back to our founding fathers and their vision for our country, and by embracing both the U.S. Constitution as it was originally written and intended, as well as supporting capitalism, especially for our very important small businesses, we have eliminated our national debt, once again become the envy and shining light of the world, and our government has shrunk to its smallest level since before the Great Depression. Nice job everyone. I think that since our mission has been accomplished, we should forego my re-election campaign and just step aside for the next President to continue our legacy. After all, I never wanted to be a career politician. I shall retire and go back to Hawaii and walk those beautiful sandy beaches for the rest of my life!"
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
I am tempted to give one other case, the well-known one of the denudation of the Weald.-- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
And your advertisements must refer to the other, which is Great Willingden or Willingden Abbots, and lies seven miles on the other side of Battle. Quite down in the weald.-- Jane Austen, Sanditon
Related to the word wild, weald comes from the Old English word weald meaning “forest.”
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