{"id":3548,"date":"2017-04-26T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingstraining.com\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2023-09-19T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T10:46:46","slug":"spread-the-word-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/spread-the-word-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"SPREAD THE WORD \u2013 SPRING"},"content":{"rendered":"

At this time of year we are inevitably drawn to words that mark the change of season. In this post we will take a look at the words that describe the coming of spring<\/strong> and also see how we can extend their use to describe change in other contexts.<\/p>\n

When a plant or tree\u00a0blooms<\/strong>, it produces flowers, and when a flower blooms<\/strong>, it opens. And if someone or something\u00a0else blooms<\/strong>, they develop good, attractive, or successful\u00a0qualities: economies and relationships can bloom <\/strong>and youngsters can bloom<\/strong> into adulthood.<\/p>\n

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To blossom<\/strong> is used to describe the flowering of a fruit tree, and figuratively also denotes the development of positive qualities: for example, we can talk of a\u00a0blossoming\u00a0<\/strong>romance.<\/p>\n

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The bud<\/strong> is the first sign that a flower or leaf is growing; here you can see how William Wordsworth used this image in this extract of his poem, \u2018Written in Early Spring\u2019:<\/p>\n

The budding twigs<\/strong> spread out their fan,
\nTo catch the breezy air;
\nAnd I must think, do all I can,
\nThat there was pleasure there<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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One of the most famous romantic passages from Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets (specifically, number 18) uses bud<\/strong> as an image, although it is summer that is truly celebrated here:<\/p>\n

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
\nThou art more lovely and more temperate:
\nRough winds do shake the darling buds of May<\/strong>,
\nAnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date.<\/em><\/p>\n

And if you talk of a budding<\/strong> entrepreneur or a \u00a0budding<\/strong>\u00a0artist, you mean that they are\u00a0starting to\u00a0succeed or become interested in business or art.<\/p>\n

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Another word used as a descriptor of early growth, the shoot, <\/strong>which is first part\u00a0of a plant\u00a0to appear\u00a0above the ground,\u00a0is often used to describe economic growth particularly in the expression the green shoots of recovery<\/strong> as seen in these examples from the press:<\/p>\n

Don’t be fooled by the green shoots of recovery in Scotland’s housing market<\/p>\n

UK grocery sector seeing its first green shoots of recovery<\/p>\n

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Finally, something else that we associate with the onset of spring and something that, for some of us at least, means sneezing, watery eyes, headaches and the avoidance of the countryside, is hay fever, <\/strong>an allergy to pollen from plants and trees. Thought to derive from<\/p>\n

hay\u2026\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

instead of pollen\u2026\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

until the early nineteenth century, its rather inaccurate name in English has stuck.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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