Sport

Playoffs called off

THE Southern Stream First Division football bosses were yesterday forced to ditch the promotion... [more]

Market place

Super dairy farm takes N$120m investment

THE largest dairy farm in Namibia, which is currently being developed outside Mariental by the... [more]

Africa

Made In Africa

WHEN African leaders discuss economic growth in Africa at this week’s African Union Summit, their... [more]

World

North Korea test-fires 4 short-range missiles

SEOUL – North Korea test-fired four short-range missiles yesterday, South Korea’s Defence Ministry... [more]

Environment

In the face of Kunene’s desert jumbos

ALTHOUGH our guide, Lister Kolokwe of Wilderness Safaris’ Doro !Nawas Camp, had assured us that a... [more]

Columns

Bling On The Recession!

RECESSION? What recession? It appears as if the City of Windhoek is not entertaining any thoughts... [more]

Light in Congo’s Darkness?

NEW YORK – Perhaps no country on earth – not even Iraq, Afghanistan, or Sudan – has suffered more... [more]

African leadership has an indifferent relationship with Albert Einstein

ABOUT a week ago, the librarian in the department of political science at the Sorbonne forwarded me... [more]

Top Stories

Chinese locomotives kaput N$36m down the rail

THE four Chinese locomotives, which cost about N$36 million and arrived in Namibia five years ago, could be used for only 33 months and suffered 265 failures during that time from October 2004 until June 2007, Parliament was told yesterday. [more]

Shocking! City rates up between 10 and 15%

WINDHOEKERS should brace themselves for a shock when they open their municipal bills at the end of the month, after the City of Windhoek on Tuesday announced its new annual budget. [more]

Windhoek Municipality on a spending spree

THE N$1,8 billion municipal budget, designed to help Windhoek “weather the storm at local level”, allocates at least N$1,4 million for entertainment, parties and festivals at the expense of several projects which would have brought relief to the less [more]

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Word-a-day

brachylogy( (bra-KIL-uh-jee) ) noun

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Conciseness of diction or an instance of such.

[From Medieval Latin brachylogia, from Greek brakhulogi, brakhu-, brachy-, short + -logy.]

Usage: “The term for the omission of words that are intended to be ‘understood’ by the reader is ellipsis. Its extreme or irregular form has a name in Greek rhetoric: brachylogy, relying on the listener to supply the missing words, much as I relied on the reader to put a verb in the sentence   fragment ‘A profound question, that.’” William Safire, Anchorspeak, The San Francisco Chronicle, Oct 7, 1990.