Words of the Week

This week’s word is –

ratiocination \rash-ee-ah-suh-NAY-shun; rash-ee-oh-\, noun:
 The process of reasoning.
 
 For all their vaunted powers of ratiocination, grand
 masters of chess tend to be a skittery lot.
 --"People," [1]Time, October 26, 1987
 
 The adventures of Sherlock Holmes proved so popular that it
 became a given that mystery tales should include a sleuth
 who investigates a murder or other crime, and by virtue of
 intelligence, ratiocination and perseverance solves a case
  that initially seemed unsolvable.
 --Maxim Jakubowski, "A beginner's guide to crime fiction,"
 [2]The Guardian, October 29, 1999
 
 There is no question that Joyce and Nabokov. . .
 brilliantly explored and expanded the limits of language
 and the structure of novels, yet both were led irresistibly
 and obsessively to cap their careers with those cold and
 lifeless masterpieces, "Finnegans Wake" and "Ada," more to
 be deciphered than read by a handful of scholars whose
 pleasure is strictly ratiocination.
 --"How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love 'Barry
 Lyndon,' " [3]New York Times, January 11, 1976

This information was taken from Doctor Dictionary’s Word of the Day 
 

 
As a foreign phrase of the week – Hello! My name is…. 
Polish – Czesc. Nazywam sie Jessica. (Che\sh\ch. Na\ zay\ vaum sh\eau Jessica)
Spanish – Hola. Me llamo Jessica. (ol\la. May  ya\moe Jessica)
French – Bonjour. Je m’appelle Jessica. (bon\zour. Juh muh\pelle Jessica.)