Monsoons, don't play truant!

There are instances when a word or an expression is borrowed from its popular usage and used for a situation that's completely unrelated to its conventional usage. And this often makes the new expression intriguing and the language richer. 

Conventionally the word 'truant' is used to describe a person, often a student, who is absent without leave. We had a newspaper headline this week that screamed: Farmers still upset at monsoon playing truant last year. 

Truant is our Word-this-Week.

Hope the monsoons don't play truant this year!

To Woo X

Government of the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh is all set to woo Google to bring in the project X - previously known as Google X, to its shores. The Andhra Pradesh CM indicated this after visiting Google's X facility in United States. X is known for Google's driver-less cars, glasses project and the use of stratosphere balloons to give internet access to remote, inhospitable areas.  

'Woo' is our Word-of-the-Week. Woo means to invite, to seek favour, affection or love or to court.