It's Merriam Webster's Word of the Day for October 1st.

Today's word is icht, spelled E-C-H-T, icht is an adjective.

It's used mostly in formal or literary speech and writing as a synonym of the words authentic,

genuine, and true.

This word used in a sentence from The New York Times by Joshua Barone.

There is a version of Dao, call it the best piece of theater we ever saw, that would have

featured Philip Glass playing piano alongside the action on stage.

But early in development, the idea was shot down by his manager.

Glass just didn't have the time.

But his score is a substantial crucial contribution.

This is late glass, far from the act minimalist sound of glass works.

When it comes to uncommon but nifty words, icht is true blue, the real deal, the genuine

article.

Actually, it's an adjective, not an article, of course, but you get the drift.

The earliest known use of icht, a synonym of true and genuine in English, is credited

to the playwright George Bernard Shaw, who used the word in a 1916 journal article.

Shaw borrowed icht directly from German, but since then, others have also adapted the

icht ish words spelled icht h-t, meaning true to form.

Both the German icht and the icht ish act share the same middle-high German source.

If contributed to the English word icht and both, therefore, are the real etymological

icht.

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

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