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There is a 'sward' (I like that word and rarely get to use it) across the access road into the school campus that is just beautiful right now. The custodians mowed the grass yesterday, and now the area looks like a park.
From this angle you can see how the ground rolls around slightly, and you can see the kudzu-covered scrub trees in the background. The soccer goal is barely visible behind the trees. I wish I could have gotten a clear picture of the yellow and red leaves on the ground. I tried several angles, but none really captured the scope I was looking for as well as this. Plus, it was very overcast today, which means the sky in the picture is muddled. :( Even so, I like the picture.
Photo of the Day...'Sward'...
From this angle you can see how the ground rolls around slightly, and you can see the kudzu-covered scrub trees in the background. The soccer goal is barely visible behind the trees. I wish I could have gotten a clear picture of the yellow and red leaves on the ground. I tried several angles, but none really captured the scope I was looking for as well as this. Plus, it was very overcast today, which means the sky in the picture is muddled. :( Even so, I like the picture.
Photo of the Day...'Sward'...
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I've seen sward but never spoken it....until just now!
"Sward" reminds me of my son's heads a couple of days after they've shaved them up for a swim meet.
I was curious about the etymology of such a funny word:
sward
"grass-covered ground," O.E. sweard "skin, rind" (of bacon, etc.), from P.Gmc. *swarthu- (cf. O.Fris. swarde "skin of the head," M.Du. swarde "rind of bacon," Ger. Schwarte "thick, hard skin, rind," O.N. svörðr "walrus hide"). Meaning "sod, turf" developed c.1300, on notion of the "skin" of the earth (cf. O.N. grassvörðr, Dan. grønsvær "greensward").
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Hahahahahaha!
I learned the word by reading a LOT of historical fiction and from crossword puzzles. :/