I thought everyone might want to know about the American National Corpus. The address is www.americannationalcorpus.org. The website includes a link to the British National Corpus.

Apoclima. Many thanks for the Latin name.

I discovered this word a few months ago and remembered it now. It,s a shrub of western North America and a creeping woody vine of eastern North America.

Gail, many thanks for the wonderful information about ''riding'' and new word ''transpicuous''. I wasn,t familiar with transpicuous. So wonderful to learn it!

This seemed like a good word to suggest. It means ''discerning'', ''insightful'' or ''wise''.

An absolutely astounding word!

I know this word because I,m an avid watcher of news programs on the CBC. Sunny and the other Canadian Agorans will know it. It refers to the local district that a polititian represents. It,s such an interesting word that I wanted the rest of the world to know it.

Welcome Sunny! You will indeed encounter many an interesting word here.

It,s wonderful that the Alpha Agora is growing so fast! By the way, Happy Thanksgiving to all the Americans on the Agora.

It,s possible.

Aeipathy. What a fantastic word!

Thanks for this word Gail. It is indeed woefully underused.

Excellent word Brazilian Dude.

Thanks for this one Katy. I do hear it occasionally but it definitely does need to be used more often.

Excellent word Katy.It,s one we should all be using more often.