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Jan 31, 2013

This week's theme
There's a word for it

This week's words
overmorrow
filipendulous
paresthesia
armscye
onomastics

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

PRONUNCIATION:

(AHRM-sy, -zy)

MEANING:

noun: An opening in a garment for attaching a sleeve; an armhole.

ETYMOLOGY:

From arm, from Old English earm + scye (armhole), from Scottish, reanalyzed as arm's eye.

USAGE:

"The sleeve is not attached around the entire armseye."
Susan Khalje; Bridal Couture; 1997.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. -Francoise Sagan, playwright and novelist (1935-2004)

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