{"id":33133,"date":"2021-05-28T17:33:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T22:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33133"},"modified":"2021-05-28T17:33:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T22:33:59","slug":"word-of-the-day-690","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/28\/word-of-the-day-690\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Surmise<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : CONJECTURE<\/li>\n<li>to form a notion of from scanty evidence : IMAGINE, INFER<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/surmise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merriam-Webster<\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Learn something new everyday. I thought it meant <em>deduction<\/em>, but no. Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticalinquirer.org\/2021\/04\/the-wyoming-death-ship-truth-be-told\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Wyoming Death Ship: Truth Be Told<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Joe Nickell, <strong><em>Skeptical Inquirer<\/em><\/strong> (May\/June 2021):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Various words and phrases in the three accounts seem unconvincing as the language of simple outdoorsmen (though not for Gaddis, whose use of the phrase \u201cthe vasty deep\u201d shows he knew his Shakespeare [see Henry IV, Part I, act 3, scene 1]). Consider Webber\u2019s \u201cto give vent to,\u201d \u201cassumed the shape of,\u201d \u201cthe apparition,\u201d \u201cstanding in a circle of close formation,\u201d \u201ccovered with hoar-frost which glittered in the rays of the afternoon sun,\u201d and \u201cthe Spectral Ship of Death\u201d; Wilson\u2019s \u201cwhile gazing out upon the swiftly running water,\u201d \u201cthe man whom,\u201d \u201cwithout a sign of animation,\u201d \u201cfrost-laden sailcloth,\u201d \u201cwhat I surmised,\u201d \u201cthe frightfully scarred face,\u201d \u201cmy supposition is that\u201d; and Heibe\u2019s (as related by Gaddis) \u201cthe vapory vessel,\u201d \u201ca scene of horror on the phantom deck,\u201d and so on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love the title of the article, and the picture that accompanies it at the link is nice, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surmise: a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : CONJECTURE to form a notion of from scanty evidence : IMAGINE, INFER [Merriam-Webster] Learn something new everyday. I thought it meant deduction, but no. Noted in &#8220;The Wyoming Death Ship: Truth Be Told,&#8221; Joe Nickell, Skeptical Inquirer (May\/June 2021): Various \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/28\/word-of-the-day-690\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33134,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33133\/revisions\/33134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}