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Word of the Day - Ne
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né [definition 3]
Pronunciation: /neɪ/
adjective
Originally called; born (used before the name by which a man was originally known): Al Kelly, né Kabish
Origin
1930s: French, literally ‘born’, masculine past participle of naître; compare with née.
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Neigh, nay, né. (I’m not really horsing around. Né cannot properly be compared to horse noise, nay, it cannot.)
Hear what I say.
Today, the word is short.
But long in purpose, I retort.
I was born but once,
But the town clerk might have been a dunce.
Middle name recorded as “Telma”
Certificate later changed more to the realm of
“Talmage.” Accuracy matters.
[For purposes known mainly to them, the lexicographers at ODO conjoin three terms to put today’s WotD as the third definition: Ne, the chemical abbreviation for neon; NE, the state abbreviation for the US state of Nebraska; and né, “born as” even though the spellings of the three are different.]
