It's Better to Travel than Arrive?

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque, 1881.


"Robert Louis Stevenson speaks utter tosh and has

obviously never flown long haul economy class"

Kristy, first ever blog post, 2011.


Friday, June 14, 2013

Copious?




The chocolates we were given on the way from Cape Town to Johannesburg on BA.  They were the size of a postage stamp.  I think they're confused about the word "copious".  They're certainly confused about my take on the word "copious"!


co·pi·ous

  [koh-pee-uhs]  Show IPA
adjective
1.
large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
2.
having or yielding an abundant supply: a copious larder; a copious harvest.
3.
exhibiting abundance or fullness, as of thoughts or words.
Origin: 
1350–1400; Middle English  < Latin cōpiōsus  plentiful, rich, equivalent to cōpi a wealth ( co- co- + op sOps + -ia -ia) + -ōsus -ous

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