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Mar 25, 2016
This week’s themeWords with unusual plurals This week’s words bema quale starets genus paries This week’s comments AWADmail 717 Next week’s theme There's a word for it 
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PRONUNCIATION:
(PAR-ee-eez)
plural parietes
MEANING:
noun: A wall of a body part or cavity.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin paries (wall). Earliest documented use: 1694. Also see parietal.
USAGE:
“An important cause is the original sin working defects in human embryo
while yet in his mother’s womb. It causes the parietes to yield to the
forces of the intra-abdominal pressure.” Hanna Rizk Wannas; The Original Sin and Human Diseases; WestBow Press; 2014. See more usage examples of paries in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University
Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the
nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no dissenters, we
should still be living in caves. -A.J.P. Taylor, historian (25 Mar
1906-1990)
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