It's the Word of the Day for April 22nd.
Today's word is Liaison, also pronounced Liaison,
and spelled L-I-A-I-S-O-N.
Liaison is a noun.
It refers to a person who helps organizations or groups work together and provide information to each other
or to a relationship that allows such interactions.
Liaison can also refer to an illicit sexual relationship.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the LA Times.
In 2019, Lindo found work at Bestia, the trendy downtown restaurant.
He flourished there, working his way up to House Expediter,
acting as the key liaison between the kitchen and dining room.
If you took French in school,
you might remember that liaison is the word for the phenomenon that causes a silent consonant at the end of one word
to sound like it begins the next word when that word begins with a vowel,
as in the way that we hear the letter X in the middle of the phrase Beaux-Arts.
We can thank French for the origin of the term liaison as well,
as it comes from the middle French lié, meaning to bind or tie.
Other English senses of liaison apply it to all kinds of bonds,
from binding and thickening agents used in cooking, as in a butter and flour liaison,
to people who work to connect different groups,