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Jul 8, 2002
This week's themeYours to discover This week's words ubiety irade ambit estival lanate 
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with Anu GargDon your sherlockian hats, put on the gumshoes, and sharpen your private eyes. It's time for some word sleuthing. Wordsmith needs a few good word detectives to save the day (or week). I had jotted down the five words for this week in my notebook, but I can't remember what was common among them. Can you see a pattern in these seemingly random words? Is there a theme that you can identify? If you think you have the answer, send it to words@wordsmith.org by Jul 12, 2002. ubiety(yoo-BYE-i-tee) noun: The condition of existing in a particular location. [From Latin ubi (where) + -ety, a variant of ity.] Here's a more familiar word with the same root: ubiquity, the state of being everywhere.
"Ubiety suffuses Milosz's work, though he says that `whether I wanted
this to happen or not, the landscapes of California have merged with
the landscapes of Lithuania.'"
"And so every anecdote in Northern Ireland has to come accompanied by
its refutation. One person will tell a story pointing up the ubiety of
the sectarian divide, and how both groups can instantly identify one
another and then someone else will chime up and say: but what about
so-and-so."
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