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May 14, 2010
This week's themeWords derived after mythical places This week's words utopia cockaigne shangri-la Garden of Eden Land of Oz 
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with Anu GargLand of Oz
PRONUNCIATION:
(land ov oz)
MEANING:
noun:
An unreal or magical place.
ETYMOLOGY:
A mythical and magical place, first introduced in the children's novel
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919). The legend
that Baum came up with the name when he saw a filing cabinet drawer labeled
O-Z (below the drawers A-G and H-N) is disputed. See here.
USAGE:
"Perhaps you were living in the Land of Oz if you had been expecting
anything but what we were handed by an Ontario Government up to its
snoot in red ink."Tayler Parnaby; Don't Peek Behind the Curtain; Caledon Enterprise (Canada); Mar 30, 2010. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The death of dogma is the birth of morality. -Immanuel Kant, philosopher (1724-1804)
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