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Are there any similarities between "du jour" and "current"? If not, what are the differences between the two words?
Merriam Webster defines these words as follows:
Definition of du jour
1: made for a particular day —used of an item not specified on the regular menu
soup du jour
2: popular, fashionable, or prominent at a particular time
the buzzword du jour
current
1a(1): occurring in or existing at the present time
the current crisis
current supplies
current needs
(2): presently elapsing
the current year
(3): most recent
the magazine's current issue
the current survey
archaic: RUNNING, FLOWING
2: generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment
current fashions
current ideas about education
I notice a pattern between sense 2 of du jour ("popular, fashionable, or prominent at a particular time") and sense 2 of current ("generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment"), but I don't really have the tools or the intellect to truly understand what that similarity is (the only similarity I've figured out thus far: they both share a sense of short-lived popularity). Is there really a similarity between these two words (the pattern between sense 2 of du jour and sense 2 of current)? If there is no such similarity between the words and their senses, then what are the differences?
Merriam Webster defines these words as follows:
Definition of du jour
1: made for a particular day —used of an item not specified on the regular menu
soup du jour
2: popular, fashionable, or prominent at a particular time
the buzzword du jour
current
1a(1): occurring in or existing at the present time
the current crisis
current supplies
current needs
(2): presently elapsing
the current year
(3): most recent
the magazine's current issue
the current survey
archaic: RUNNING, FLOWING
2: generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment
current fashions
current ideas about education
I notice a pattern between sense 2 of du jour ("popular, fashionable, or prominent at a particular time") and sense 2 of current ("generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment"), but I don't really have the tools or the intellect to truly understand what that similarity is (the only similarity I've figured out thus far: they both share a sense of short-lived popularity). Is there really a similarity between these two words (the pattern between sense 2 of du jour and sense 2 of current)? If there is no such similarity between the words and their senses, then what are the differences?
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