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Feb 22, 2011
This week's themeWords with unusual plurals This week's words stele eidos fomes lacuna miasma 
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with Anu Gargeidos
PRONUNCIATION:
(EYE-dos, AY-)
 plural eide (EYE-dee, AY-day)
MEANING:
noun: The formal sum of a culture, its intellectual character, ideas, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek eidos (form, idea), ultimately from the Indo-European root weid-
(to see), which is the source of words such as wise, view, supervise, wit, and
eidetic. Earliest recorded use: 1936.
USAGE:
"Picture, if you will, honey, the eidos of repulsive: plaid upholstered
chairs, with ruffled skirts, all hideously brown and yellow."Christopher Coe; Such Times; Penguin Books; 1994. See more usage examples of eidos in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. -Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)
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