The electronic campfire...

By Vichara

Conversing and sharing thoughts in this forum is almost like sitting around a warm campfire on a cool dark night. You know that there are people out there but it’s just dark enough that you need to trust that they are out there and listening. This electronic campfire where we share thoughts and concepts is a remarkable thing but we all need to ensure that we also utilize and maintain the human interaction, face-to-face, everyday.

chauffeur • \SHOH-fer\ • noun
: a person employed to drive a motor vehicle

Example Sentence:
The teenagers hired a limousine with a chauffeur to take them to the prom in style.

Did you know?
Here's a hot tip about the origins of today's word: the first chauffeurs were people employed to stoke a steam engine and keep it running. The literal meaning of the French noun "chauffeur" (from the verb "chauffer," meaning "to heat") is "one that heats." In the early days of automobiles, French speakers extended the word to those who drove the "horseless carriage," and it eventually developed an extended sense specifically for someone hired to drive other people. It was this latter sense that was borrowed into English in the late 19th century. Incidentally, the French word "chauffeur" derives from the same Anglo-French word that gave English speakers the verb "chafe," and ultimately can be traced back to the Latin verb "calēre" ("to be warm").