{"id":44753,"date":"2026-06-04T07:54:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44753"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:54:02","slug":"word-of-the-day-1121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/06\/04\/word-of-the-day-1121\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hodiernal tense<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<b>hodiernal tense<\/b>\u00a0(<a title=\"List of glossing abbreviations\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_glossing_abbreviations\">abbreviated<\/a>\u00a0<span class=\"smallcaps\"><b>hod<\/b><\/span>) is a\u00a0<a title=\"Grammatical tense\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grammatical_tense\">grammatical tense<\/a>\u00a0for the current day. (<i>Hodie<\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0<i>hodierno die<\/i>\u00a0is\u00a0<a title=\"Latin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin\">Latin<\/a>\u00a0for &#8216;today&#8217;.)<\/p>\n<p>Hodiernal tenses refer to events of today (in an absolute tense system) or of the day under consideration (in a relative tense system).<\/p>\n<p>Hodiernal\u00a0<a title=\"Past tense\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Past_tense\">past tense<\/a>\u00a0refers to events of earlier today (or earlier than the reference point of the day under consideration), while hodiernal\u00a0<a style=\"cursor: pointer !important; user-select: none !important;\" title=\"Future tense\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Future_tense\">future tense<\/a>\u00a0refers to events of later today (or later than the reference point of the day under consideration). A\u00a0<b>post-hodiernal tense<\/b>\u00a0is a future tense for events that will occur after today or the day under consideration, while\u00a0<b>pre-hodiernal<\/b>\u00a0is a past tense for events that occurred before today or the day under consideration.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hodiernal_tense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, specificity like that, nope in English. Referenced in the video <em>Fantastic Features We Don&#8217;t Have In The English Language,<\/em> by Tom Scott.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fantastic Features We Don&amp;apos;t Have In The English Language\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QYlVJlmjLEc?start=51&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hodiernal tense: A\u00a0hodiernal tense\u00a0(abbreviated\u00a0hod) is a\u00a0grammatical tense\u00a0for the current day. (Hodie\u00a0or\u00a0hodierno die\u00a0is\u00a0Latin\u00a0for &#8216;today&#8217;.) Hodiernal tenses refer to events of today (in an absolute tense system) or of the day under consideration (in a relative tense system). Hodiernal\u00a0past tense\u00a0refers to events of earlier today (or earlier than the reference point of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/06\/04\/word-of-the-day-1121\/\"> 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44753","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\/44753","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=44753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44760,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44753\/revisions\/44760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}