anent

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The Word of the Day for November 25 is:=20

anent   \uh-NENT\   preposition
          : about, concerning=20

Example sentence:
          =E2=80=9CAnent the article about the recent political scandal:=
 we=E2=80=99ve heard enough already!=E2=80=9D began Jamil=E2=80=99s lett=
er to the editor.

Did you know?
          "Anent" looks like a rather old-fashioned word. It is, in fact=
, very old (an earlier sense of the word can be found in _Beowulf_, from=
 approximately 800 A.D.), and at one point it was almost obsolete. It ha=
d nearly died out by the 17th century, but it was revived in the 19th ce=
ntury. Various usage commentators have decried "anent" as "affected" and=
 "archaic." It is not archaic, however. Although =E2=80=9Canent=E2=80=9D=
 is rarely found in speech, plenty of examples of current use can be fou=
nd in written sources. Dead words do occasionally rise from the grave, a=
nd "anent" is one of them.





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