It's the Word of the Day podcast for January 24th.

Today's word is Divers, spelled D-I-V-E-R-S. Divers is an adjective, meaning numbering more than one.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Variety by

Ben Crawl. These prizes reflect the diversity of this year's edition. NIFFF, artistic director

Pierre Eve Walder, tells Variety. Our festival showcases the fantastic in all its forms, promoting divers,

styles, points of view, themes, and aesthetics. And I think these winners really show as much.

The word divers, D-I-V-E-R-S, is not a misspelling of the word diverse. It's a word in its own right. Both adjectives come from the

Latin Diversus, meaning turning in opposite directions, and both historically could be pronounced

either divers, like the plural of the noun diver, or diverse. Divers, without the E, is typically used before a plural noun to

indicate an unspecified quantity, as in a certain secret drawer in the wardrobe where we store

diver's parchments. That's from Jane Eyre. It's a rather formal word and not commonly encountered.

Diverse is frequently called upon to emphasize variety. It's a rather formal word and not commonly encountered. Diverse is frequently called upon to emphasize variety.

It means either dissimilar or unlike, as in a variety of activities to appeal to the children's diverse interests,

or made up of people or things that are different from each other, as in a diverse student body.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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