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Sep 17, 2010
This week's themeFabled lands This week's words camelot hades never-never land ivory tower la-la land This week's comments AWADmail 429 Next week's theme Letter-words Add your two cents' to the discussion on language and words at our bulletin board Wordsmith Talk 
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with Anu Gargla-la land
PRONUNCIATION:
(la-la land)
MEANING:
noun:1. A place or a state of being out of touch with reality. 2. A place known for frivolous activities. ETYMOLOGY:
Finally, a fictional land that is named after a real place. The term la-la
land is coined from the initials of the city of Los Angeles, home of
Hollywood, alluding to the fictitious nature of the movies, sets, etc.
USAGE:
"Stockwell Day is in the la-la land of Republicans, who for decades whipped
up (white) fear of (black) crime and kept building prisons across America
until there was no more money to build."Haroon Siddiqui; Harper's Ottawa Becomes Republican La-la Land; The Toronto Star (Canada); Aug 8, 2010. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. -Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (1885-1962)
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