24 July 2007
What is an ALPHA Outdoor Accolade?
Posted by Darrell under: Blog Posts of Note .
An Alpha Outdoor Accolade is my way of acknowledging, recognizing, and honoring blog post that are especially interesting, insightful, or exciting. Any post that qualifies for an accolade is very special indeed!
According to Dictionary.com:
ac·co·lade (āk’ə-lād’, -läd’)
tr.v. ac·co·lad·ed, ac·co·lad·ing, ac·co·lades
To praise or honor: “His works are invariably accoladed as definitive even as they sparkle and spark” (Malcolm S. Forbes).
Word History: People usually have to stick their necks out to earn accolades, and this is as it should be. In tracing accolade back to its Latin origins, we find that it was formed from the prefix ad-, “to, on,” and the noun collum, “neck,” which may bring the word collar to mind. From these elements came the Vulgar Latin word *accollāre, which was the source of French accolade, “an embrace.” An embrace was originally given to a knight when dubbing him, a fact that accounts for accolade having the technical sense “ceremonial bestowal of knighthood,” the sense in which the word is first recorded in English in 1623.
3 Comments so far...
Kristine Shreve Says:
25 July 2007 at 8:25 am.
Very cool graphic. I like it.
So do those that receive an Accolade get to post the graphic?
Darrell Says:
26 July 2007 at 10:03 am.
I hadn’t really thought about it, but, yes, if someone receives an Accolade they are welcome to post the graphic!
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