It's Merriam Webster's Word of the Day for October 28th.

Today's word is Erassable, spelled I-R-A-S-C-I-B-L-E.

Erassable is an adjective.

Someone who is irassable is easily angered and annoyed.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Rolling Stone by John Blistine.

If anyone earned the right to be an irassable octogenarian, especially when it comes to music,

it's probably Bob Dylan.

In a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, the singer-songwriter got the chance to

do some sermonizing, sharing both astute points and some rather comogenly ones about the

state of contemporary music and the streaming era.

If you try to take apart the word irassable on the model of irrational, irresistible, and

irresponsible, you might find yourself wondering what assable means.

But that's not how irassable came to be.

The key to the meaning of irassable isn't the negating prefix I-R, which is the form

of the prefix I-N that is used before words beginning with R, but rather the Latin noun

I-R-A, meaning anger.

Some I-R, which is also the root of the words I-Rate and I-R, came the Latin verb I-R-A-S-K,

meaning to become angry.

And the related adjective I-R-S-K, the latter of which led to the French word I-R-S-I-B-L.

English speakers borrowed the word from French in the 1500s, with your word of the day on

Peter Sokolowski.

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