Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Bailwick

Today we learn this word Baiwick.
Example

Area of authority, interest or skill; as, Quantum mechanics was his bailiwick. English bailiff (deputy sheriff) and wick (village).

One quick search on google yielded

Peoples in bibles are shadows and most even mud or gas are padding like sands

Human not only create electronic devices in our bailiwick

Some loves animals and we have veterinarians

Every day there are flowers decayed but there are new plants in our air

Another one on google gave

GMA brings gov't projects to Nueva Ecija, former bailiwick of deposed President Estrada

One Cnn news story had this line

Police officials said the ex-president's return to his bailiwick could have posed a security problem.

The district over which a sheriff has jurisdiction; it signifies also the same as county, the sheriff's bailiwick extending over the county.

Note the correct spelling is Bailivick not bailwick as I initially searched though you could find a lot of people making this mistake as I found out on google. I have corrected all the references where the spelling was wrong.

Thus we see the most common references to this word are for area under juridication, or interest

Time for my sentence !

  I thought learning languages was not my bailiwick until I started learning new languages.  Most of us have sometime or the other discover that we tend to be afraid of other people until we know their language. Try learning new language and you are sure that you will learn to love people speaking that language. So learning new language should be your new bailiwick ;)

 

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