Sorry, folks. I wrote this post on the wrong one of my two blogs, and I seem to have lost it in the effort to re-blog it here. I’ll see if I can find it.
Synchronize
Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt.
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I do apologize. I meant for this to be posted on my writing blog, not on this one. That’s what happens when you don’t double check. So I’m going to re-blog this on my other blog, and then I’ll delete it from here 🙂
From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary:
synchronize (v.)
1620s, “to occur at the same time,” from Greek synkhronizein “be of the same time,” from synkhronos “happening at the same time” (see synchronous). The transitive sense of “make synchronous” is first recorded 1806. Of timepieces by 1879. Related: Synchronized; synchronizing. Synchronized swimming is recorded from 1950.
The prefix syn means united, acting, or considered together; thus the name of the once popular boy band, ‘N Sync that got its start in 1995.
Chronos was the Greek god of time. Interesting, always, where…
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