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Date: Wed Aug 1 00:01:30 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--wiseacre
X-Bonus: A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road. -Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)
wiseacre (WIZ-ay-kuhr) noun
One who obnoxiously pretends to be wise; smart-aleck; wise-guy.
[From Middle Dutch wijsseggher, soothsayer, translation of Middle High
German wissage, from Old High German wissago, wise person, altered by
folk etymology.]
"Mr. Mahoney, the wiseacre dad on NBC's `Frasier,' here has the chance
to play gruff and sarcastic until late in the play, when a lifetime of
artifice crumbles and his guilt and pain are exposed."
Joel Henning, Theater: Artifice Unmasked; Chekhov Cluttered,
The Wall Street Journal (New York), Jun 5, 2001.
This week's theme: words evolved using folk etymologies.
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Date: Thu Aug 2 00:01:23 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--rakehell
X-Bonus: In truth everything and everyone / Is a shadow of the Beloved, / And our seeking is His seeking / And our words are His words... / We search for Him here and there, / while looking right at Him. / Sitting by His side, we ask: / "O Beloved, where is the Beloved?" -Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273)
rakehell (RAYK-hel) noun
A licentious or immoral person.
[By folk etymology from Middle English rakel, rash, hasty.]
"The instrument had previously been owned - witness the title
`ex. Paganini' - by that notorious rakehell and virtuoso, who sold
it to Vuillaume."
Nicholas Delbanco, The Countess of Stanlein Restored,
Harper's Magazine (New York) Jan 2001.
This week's theme: words evolved using folk etymologies.
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Date: Fri Aug 3 00:01:23 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--chaise longue
X-Bonus: What is called discretion in men is called cunning in animals. -Jean de la Fontaine, poet and fabulist (1621-1695)
chaise longue (shayz LONG) noun,
plural chaise longues or chaises longues (shays LONG)
A reclining chair with an elongated seat for supporting legs.
[From French, literally long chair. The prevalent variant form of this term,
chaise lounge, is formed by folk etymology.]
"A pair of Air Force pilots recently locked themselves inside
a closet-size metal box here for 50 hours, subsisting on cold pizza and
instant noodles, amusing themselves with crossword puzzles and paperback
books, and taking occasional catnaps on a fold-up chaise longue from
Wal-Mart. The box was a B-2 bomber simulator."
James Dao, Stealth Bomber, Once Scorned, Gains Fresh Backing,
The New York Times, Jun 26, 2001.
"In addition to the goldfish pond and fireplace, it sports a chaise lounge
covered in hand-painted silk, a modest waterfall and an exercise alcove."
Patricia Davis, Home Front -- Bowl, Bath and Beyond, The Wall Street
Journal (New York) Jan 8, 1999.
This week's theme: words evolved using folk etymologies.
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Date: Mon Aug 6 00:01:23 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--warren
X-Bonus: Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. -Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980)
warren (WOR-ehn) noun
1. A place where rabbits live or are kept.
2. A building or area that is overcrowded or has a complicated layout.
[From Middle English warenne, area for breeding game, from Old French,
possibly of Germanic origin.]
"Both cases decided, Dr. Watson, and both in my favour. I haven't had
such a day since I had Sir John Morland for trespass because he shot
in his own warren."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put his legendary Sherlock Holmes on the trail of
murderers, blackmailers, burglars, and con men in the cleverest guises.
Crime was everywhere, according to the master detective. "It is my belief,"
he told his ever faithful Dr. Watson, "that the lowest and vilest alleys of
London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling
and beautiful countryside." In pursuit of their quarry, Holmes and Watson
often came face to face with the dark side of the human character. With
brains, pluck, and Watson's trusty service revolver, they conquered all.
Last week, Sherlock Holmes devotees flocked to Dartmoor, in south west
England, to mark the centenary of publication of the famous Holmes adventure
set there, The Hound of the Baskervilles. AWAD pays homage by sampling
words from The Hound and other Conan Doyle tales. -Lauren Weiner
(lauren_weinerATkyl.senate.gov)
(This week's guest wordsmith Lauren Weiner is an editor for Senator Jon Kyl
(Republican, Arizona) in Washington, D.C. Her literary reviews and essays
have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New Criterion, the Wilson
Quarterly, the Baltimore Sun, and many other publications. -Anu)
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Date: Tue Aug 7 00:01:28 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--inculpate
X-Bonus: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
inculpate (in-KUHL-payt) verb tr.
To accuse; to incriminate.
[From Late Latin inculpatus, from Latin in- + culpatus, past participle
of culpare to blame, from culpa fault.]
"`It had not been there the morning before.' `How do you know?'
`Because I tidied out the wardrobe.' `That is final. Then someone came
into your room and placed the pistol there in order to inculpate you.'"
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge.
This week's theme: words from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writings.
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Date: Wed Aug 8 00:01:27 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--vexatious
X-Bonus: If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
vexatious (vek-SAY-shuhs) adjective
1. Causing vexation or irritation.
2. A legal action instituted on insufficient grounds and brought
solely to annoy the defendant.
[From Middle English vexacioun, from Latin vexation, from vexatus,
past participle of vexare, to vex.]
"`When I arrived at Baker Street I found him huddled up in his armchair
with updrawn knees, his pipe in his mouth and his brow furrowed with
thought. It was clear that he was in the throes of some vexatious
problem.'"
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Creeping Man.
This week's theme: words from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writings.
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Date: Thu Aug 9 00:01:21 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--scud
X-Bonus: Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. -Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer, Nobel laureate, (1904-1991)
scud (skud) verb intr.
1. To run or move swiftly.
2. In nautical parlance, to run before a gale with little or no sail set.
noun
1. The act of scudding.
2. Clouds, rain, mist, etc. driven by the wind.
3. Low clouds beneath another cloud layer.
[Uncertain origin, possibly from Middle Low German schudden, to shake.]
"It was a fine night, but chilly, and we were glad of our warm
overcoats. There was a breeze, and clouds were scudding across
the sky, obscuring from time to time the half-moon."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Creeping Man.
This week's theme: words from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writings.
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Date: Fri Aug 10 00:01:31 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--cormorant
X-Bonus: While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
cormorant (KOR-muhr-uhnt) noun
1. Any of the seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, having
a hooked bill with a pouch under it, a long neck and webbed feet.
2. A greedy person.
[Middle English cormeraunt, from Middle French cormorant, from Old French
cormareng, from corp, raven + marenc, of the sea, from Latin marinus.]
"The source of these outrages is known, and if they are repeated I have
Mr. Holmes's authority for saying that the whole story concerning the
politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant will be given to
the public."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger.
This week's theme: words from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writings.
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Date: Mon Aug 13 00:33:31 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--Hobson-Jobson
X-Bonus: As freely as the firmament embraces the world, / or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, / so mercy must encircle both friend and foe. -Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet and dramatist (1759-1805)
Hobson-Jobson (HOB-suhn JOB-suhn) noun
Adaptation of a foreign word or phrase to fit the sound and spelling
patterns of the borrowing language.
[From the title of a book of the same name.]
"Rushdie's characters talk like Wodehouse characters playing with
Hobson-Jobson: `In this God-fearing Christian house, British still is
best, madder-moyselle.... If you have ambitions in our boy's direction,
then please to mindofy your mouth.'"
James Wood, Salaam Bombay!, The New Republic (Washington), Mar 18, 1996.
Every year, followers of the Shia sect of Muslims take part in
elaborate processions commemorating sacrifices of Husain, grandson
of the Prophet Muhammad. They beat their chests with fists and iron
chains as a mark of penance while chanting "Ya Hasan! Ya Husain!"
To a native English speaker, those cries perhaps sound more like
"Hobson-Jobson." So, in 1886 when Henry Yule, a member of the British
occupation in India, published a book of anglicized colloquial words from
Indian languages, he chose that very expression as the title for his
collection: Hobson-Jobson. And ever since we refer that process and the
words thus formed by the same name.
This process of lexical and phonological assimilation of words from one
language to another is not confined to any particular set of languages.
We see this mix of pun and folk-etymology whenever speakers of two diverse
languages cross paths. You may have heard about "Harry Kerry," the preferred
method of suicide by Japanese warriors. Here are other examples:
o Juggernaut from Sanskrit Jagannatha.
o Plonk (cheap wine) from French [vin] blanc.
o Mary Jane/Mary Warner/Mary Jane Warner for Mexican/Spanish marijuana.
o Hocus-pocus from Latin hoc est corpus.
You can browse the Hobson-Jobson dictionary on the Web at
http://bibliomania.com/2/3/260/ . While you are there, don't forget to
look up "puggry," a word ending in gry.
During the rest of this week, we'll look at a few other words about words.
-Anu
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Date: Tue Aug 14 00:01:23 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--dittography
X-Bonus: To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets. -Mencius, philosopher (c. 380-289 BCE)
dittography (di-TOG-ruh-fee) noun
The inadvertent repetition of letters, words, or phrases in
in writing.
[From Greek ditto (double) + -graphy (writing).]
"As a calligraphy teacher, I find the word haplography useful. When
concentrating on producing good letter forms it is easy to make mistakes
such as writing `rember' instead of `remember'. Its opposite is
dittography: the writing twice of what should have been written once,
such as `critics' becoming `crititics'."
Susan Moor, Notes & Queries, The Guardian (London), Apr 23, 1997.
This week's theme: words about words.
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Date: Wed Aug 15 00:01:28 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--eye dialect
X-Bonus: If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
eye dialect (eye-DY-uh-lekt) noun
Unusual or nonstandard spelling to represent an uneducated or youthful
speaker or to convey dialectal or colloquial speech.
Examples: wuz for was, wimmin (women), enuff (enough), warez (wares),
peepul (people), Strine (Australian).
[First used in print by George Phillip Krapp (1872-1934) in The English
Language in America to denote spellings in which "the convention violated
is one of the eyes, not of the ear."]
"It's known as eye dialect, 'sur'.
"The student celebrating her graduation with the words `Yahoo I'm threw'
printed on her mortar-board cap (`Must be joking', May 17) and a critic's
strong disdain for the student's fracturing of the King's English
(`Graduate should have checked 'dictshunary',' May 20), was a cute cryptic
pun cast in a form known as eye dialect. Examples of eye dialect cuz for
cousin, sez for says, threw for through. Perhaps, if the word `threw' had
been shielded within quotations marks, the student's intent would have
been understood more readily. But, this would have robbed it of its
spunk."
Richard Harris, Readers' Views, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Jun 3, 1998.
This week's theme: words about words.
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Date: Thu Aug 16 00:01:17 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--epenthesis
X-Bonus: Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful. -Anacharsis, philosopher (6th century BCE)
epenthesis (uh-PEN-thu-sis) noun
Insertion of an extra sound into a word, e.g. fillum for film.
[From Late Latin, from Greek epentithenai, to insert : ep-, epi-,
(in addition) + en- (in) thesis (to place), stem of tithenia (to put).]
"Mosner also asked whether there is a name for `the insertion of a
nonexistent syllable or sound in a word? Exhibit 1: the regrettably
ubiquitous 'ath-a-lete.' Exhibit 2: 'height-th.'
"Yes: It is epenthesis. Another instance of it is el-lum for elm.
Alden Wood, Wood Caught in a Snare Andalusian, Communication World
(San Francisco), Jun/Jul 1996.
This week's theme: words about words.
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Date: Fri Aug 17 00:01:24 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--idiolect
X-Bonus: As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. -Van Wyck Brooks, writer, critic (1886-1963)
idiolect (ID-ee-uh-lekt) noun
Language usage pattern unique to a person.
[From Greek idio- (personal, peculiar) + dialect (language unique to
a group of people).]
"See the unique way you put words together? That's your idiolect: your
personal dialect. That's your language; no one else has it."
Chris Redgate, The Red Pencil, The Washington Post, May 17, 2001.
This week's theme: words about words.
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Date: Mon Aug 20 00:01:27 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--misocainea
X-Bonus: A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe. -David McCord, poet (1897-1997)
misocainea (mis-oh-KY-nee-uh, mi-soh-) noun
Hatred of anything new.
[Greek miso- (hate) + caino- (new).]
"Although I agree with the majority that no appellate court has yet held
an insurer liable absent a premium payment, it may be nothing more than
appellate judges suffering from a case of misocainea!"
Hill v. Chubb Life American Insurance Co., Arizona Business Gazette
(Phoenix), Nov 11, 1993.
It's a good thing we don't have to act out the literal meaning of words
or we'd all be exercising in the nude in gymnasia. The word gymnasium
comes to us from the Greek gymnazein, literally to train in the nude.
Other words formed using the combining form gymno- (naked or bare) are
gymnoplast (protoplasm without surrounding wall) and gymnosophy (a form
of philosophy practiced by a sect of ascetics who refuse to wear clothes).
As its name indicates, a combining form is a linguistic form that combines
with a free word or another combining form to make a word. Sometimes there
can be two combining forms joining a third (auto-bio-graphy). Also the same
combining form can take different positions at different times (-graph- in
graphology and autograph). Then there are instances where the same combining
form can join itself to produce a word (logology, the study of words). All
this can perhaps be explained very well using humans as the metaphor. But
as this newsletter is family-oriented, we'll resist that temptation.
Instead, in this week's AWAD we'll see some unusual words formed by other
combining forms: miso- (hate), pili- (hair), ichno- (track), stego- (cover),
and chiro- (hand). -Anu
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Date: Tue Aug 21 00:01:25 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--piliform
X-Bonus: The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. -Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist (1802-1885)
piliform (PIL-i-form) adjective
Having the form of a hair.
[From Neo-Latin piliformis, from pili- (hair) + -form.]
"As movie time approaches, you're satisfied that since the theater is
sparsely populated, nobody will occupy the seat in front of you... Just
when you're feeling safe, boom: Marge Simpson makes her way down the
row and plunks herself right in your line of vision, her retro beehive
obscuring all but the very margins of the scream, uh, screen.
The solution: Snip a page out of the 'Edward Scissorhands' book.
Marge's do would make a fine topiary, with an appropriately topical
cinematic theme. Be creative. An exhibition of, say, `The Perfect Storm'
would call for a piliform wave; `Me, Myself & Irene' might inspire a
bouffant bovine."
Bob Ivry, When You Mind Very Much If They Do, Other Moviegoers Got
Your Goat? Don't Get Mad Get Even, The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey),
Jul 16, 2000.
This week's theme: words formed using combining forms.
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Date: Wed Aug 22 00:01:30 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--ichnology
X-Bonus: The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. -Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)
ichnology (ik-NOL-uh-jee) noun
A branch of paleontology dealing with the study of fossilized footprints,
tracks, traces, etc.
[From ichno- (track or footstep) + -logy (study).]
"The small rocky exposure that the waters of the Ntumbe River had
uncovered may be quite unique to ichnology. In addition to another
trackway of six footprints of a slightly larger sub-adult, there are
numerous other isolated tracks ..."
Theagarten Lingham-Soliar, Walking With Baby Dinosaurs, The Guardian (UK),
Sep 28, 2000.
This week's theme: words formed using combining forms.
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Date: Thu Aug 23 00:01:25 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--steganography
X-Bonus: If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow. -Arabian proverb
steganography (ste-guh-NOG-ruh-fee) noun
Secret communication by hiding the existence of message.
A couple of examples of steganography: shrinking the secret text (by
repeated use of a photocopy machine) until it's the size of a dot and
then putting it in an unsuspected place, such as on top of a letter i in
some innocuous letter. Second, shaving the head of a man, writing the
secret message on his pate with unwashable ink, and then letting the
hair grow back before dispatching him to the destination. To take an
example from modern digital techniques, one could put the text of a
message in the blank spaces in an image file.
[From Greek stego- (cover) + -graphy (writing).]
"The history of cryptography crackles with famous names. Shifting the
whole alphabet forward or backward by one or more letters, so that, for
example, A becomes B, B becomes C, and so on, is known as a `Caesar
shift', one of the simplest kinds of cypher or letter-substitution code
(see the title of this article). Julius Caesar also used the ruse of
writing a Latin message in Greek characters so that it would be
unreadable if intercepted by the Gauls. One such missive was delivered
to the besieged Cicero fixed to a spear which was hurled into his camp
by a messenger. And pin-pricking the letters of an existing document to
spell out a secret message, a form of steganography popular in Victorian
times when newspapers could be sent by post for free, dates back to
Aeneas."
Moreover: Tijguz cvtjoftt, The Economist (London) Aug 28, 1999.
This week's theme: words formed using combining forms.
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Date: Fri Aug 24 00:01:31 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--chiromancy
X-Bonus: We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer (1830-1916)
chiromancy (KI-ruh-man-see) noun
The practice of predicting character and future of a person from the
lines on the palms; palmistry.
[From Greek chiro- (hand) + -mancy (divination).]
"Also called chiromancy, palm reading has a long history, extending back
to ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Palm readers focus on four lines and
seven `mounts' on a person's hand to analyze character and predict
destiny."
Scott Shibuya Brown, A New Age of Aquarius Booming Interest in Astrology,
The Los Angeles Times, Aug 28, 1994.
This week's theme: words formed using combining forms.
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Date: Mon Aug 27 00:59:24 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--ultima thule
X-Bonus: Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. -Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870)
ultima Thule (UL-tuh-muh THOO-lee) noun
1. The northernmost part of the world believed habitable by the ancients.
2. A distant or remote goal or place.
[Latin ultima, farthest, Thule, name of a place.]
"Opportunities? In culture's Ultima Thule? Absolutely, both Clink and
Egan affirm."
Mike Dunham, Growing Talent Pool Figures in 'Requiem', The Daily News
(Anchorage, Alaska), Apr 9, 1999.
"It is much too early, say the experts, to presume Samurai's exile to
ultima Thule wherein rust those firecracker Ford Pintos, runaway Audi
5000s and Ralph Nader's Corvairs that were unsafe at any speed."
Paul Dean, Safety and the Samurai: Fans Don't Mind a Few Bumps,
The Los Angeles Times, Jun 9, 1988.
Known to the ancients as the northern-most region of the habitable world,
Thule had been variously identified as one of the Shetland islands, Norway,
or Iceland. Today's Thule is in northwest Greenland, within the Arctic Circle.
Incidentally, the name Greenland is ironic, as more than four-fifths of the
land is ice-capped. The palindromically named village of Qaanaaq, in the
district of Thule, has the distinction of being the northern-most naturally
inhabited place on earth.
At least one linguaphile lives in Greenland (with email address ending in gl,
the domain code for Greenland), but we don't know if there's one in Thule.
During the rest of this week, we'll look at other words that take their names
from faraway places in both fact and fiction. -Anu
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Date: Tue Aug 28 00:01:24 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--El Dorado
X-Bonus: The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. -Mark Twain, author (1835-1910)
El Dorado (el duh-RAH-doh) noun
1. A legendary place in South America sought for its treasures by
16th century explorers.
2. A place offering fabulous wealth or opportunity.
[From Spanish, literally, the gilded one.]
"Although I felt somewhat excluded the last few years, I did appreciate
seeing people parade their wealth as if they were financial conquistadors
in a stock market El Dorado."
Harvey Lieberman, I Told You So? Well, Not Exactly, The New York Times,
Apr 29, 2001.
This week's theme: words related to places.
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Date: Wed Aug 29 00:01:23 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--timbuktu
X-Bonus: The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation. -John Cage, composer (1912-1992)
Timbuktu (tim-buk-TOO) noun
1. A town in West Africa in central Mali. Also Tombouctou.
2. Any remote place.
"`You can never find a space [at the mall]; you have to park in Timbuktu,'
Ms. Dvorak says. `Then you have to walk all over the mall.'"
Dean Starkman, The Mall, Without the Haul, The Wall Street Journal
(New York), Jul 25, 2001.
This week's theme: words related to places.
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Date: Thu Aug 30 00:01:31 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--stoic
X-Bonus: It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack. -Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)
stoic (STOH-ik) noun
One who is or appears to be indifferent to pleasure or pain; unaffected
by emotions.
adjective
Unaffected by pleasure or pain.
[After the name of the school of philosophy founded by Greek philosopher
Zeno (c. 340-265 BCE) that one should be free of passion and be unaffected
by grief or joy. From Middle English, from Latin stoicus, from Greek stoikos
from stoa, the porch where Zeno taught.]
"Those who stand to lose revenue from electronic-book piracy are being
remarkably stoic in the face of the first high-profile incident."
Christine McGeever, E-book Piracy Doesn't Frighten Publishers,
Computerworld, Apr 10, 2000.
This week's theme: words related to places.
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Date: Fri Aug 31 00:01:21 EDT 2001
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--brigadoon
X-Bonus: The willing contemplation of vice is vice. -Arabic proverb
brigadoon (BRIG-uh-doon) noun
An idyllic place that is out of touch with reality or one that makes its
appearance for a brief period in a long time.
[From Brigadoon, a village in the musical of the same name, by Alan Jay
Lerner and Frederick Loewe, based on the story Germelshausen by Friedrich
Gerstacker. Brigadoon is under a spell that makes it invisible to outsiders
except on one day every 100 years.]
"There is a feel of Brigadoon to Cooperstown, the lush village of
baseball and opera tucked into the middle of an idyllic nowhere in
upstate New York."
Elisabeth Bumiller, Cooperstown, The New York Times, Jul 1, 2001.
This week's theme: words related to places.