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Today's A Word A Day: cat's meow
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Happy 32nd anniversary for Wordsmith.org!
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Today's Word is Podsnap:
"Podsnap is a pompous, jingoistic character, proudly immune to nuance. As Dickens describes him, “Mr Podsnap was well-to-do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap’s opinion. ... Mr Podsnap’s world was not a very large world, morally; no, nor even geographically: seeing that although his business was sustained upon commerce with other countries, he considered other countries, with that important reservation, a mistake.”
As Podsnap himself adds, “No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country. ... This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as -- as there may happen to be.”
Podsnap, the walking embodiment of moral myopia in a world so tight no unpleasant facts gets through."
Indeed! This seems so familiar...
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Today's #AWAD #AWordADay: ELSEWHEN
with Anu Garg❛❛ Unlike a #BlackHole — a region of #SpaceTime from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a #Wormhole is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear #elsewhere or #elsewhen. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 #WaPo
🔗 https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html 2025 Jan 06
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Today's #AWAD #AWordADay: ELSEWHEN
with Anu Garg❛❛ Unlike a #BlackHole — a region of #SpaceTime from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a #Wormhole is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear #elsewhere or #elsewhen. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 #WaPo
🔗 https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html 2025 Jan 06
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg … #AnuGarg#Community #TimeTravel #Research #vocabulary #lexicon #words #glossary #English #Time #Kronodon
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Today's #AWAD #AWordADay: ELSEWHEN
with Anu Garg❛❛ Unlike a #BlackHole — a region of #SpaceTime from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a #Wormhole is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear #elsewhere or #elsewhen. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 #WaPo
🔗 https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html 2025 Jan 06
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg … #AnuGarg#Community #TimeTravel #Research #vocabulary #lexicon #words #glossary #English #Time #Kronodon
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Today's #AWAD #AWordADay: ELSEWHEN
with Anu Garg❛❛ Unlike a #BlackHole — a region of #SpaceTime from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a #Wormhole is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear #elsewhere or #elsewhen. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 #WaPo
🔗 https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html 2025 Jan 06
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg … #AnuGarg#Community #TimeTravel #Research #vocabulary #lexicon #words #glossary #English #Time #Kronodon
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Today's #AWAD #AWordADay: ELSEWHEN
with Anu Garg❛❛ Unlike a #BlackHole — a region of #SpaceTime from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a #Wormhole is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear #elsewhere or #elsewhen. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 #WaPo
🔗 https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html 2025 Jan 06
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg … #AnuGarg#Community #TimeTravel #Research #vocabulary #lexicon #words #glossary #English #Time #Kronodon
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.
-Turkish proverb
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.
-Turkish proverb
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.
-Turkish proverb
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“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; 1792.
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#AWordADay #AnuGarg #AWAD #Wordplay #DadJokes
In Anu Garg's weekday email, the word was "tangent" in a week of math/geometry terms.
Of course, my mind went:
Tangent: The dapper dude that sprays a certain orange-y bronze-ish color on an egomaniac and then tells him how great it looks.
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#AWordADay #AnuGarg #AWAD #Wordplay #DadJokes
In Anu Garg's weekday email, the word was "tangent" in a week of math/geometry terms.
Of course, my mind went:
Tangent: The dapper dude that sprays a certain orange-y bronze-ish color on an egomaniac and then tells him how great it looks.
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#AWordADay #AnuGarg #AWAD #Wordplay #DadJokes
In Anu Garg's weekday email, the word was "tangent" in a week of math/geometry terms.
Of course, my mind went:
Tangent: The dapper dude that sprays a certain orange-y bronze-ish color on an egomaniac and then tells him how great it looks.
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#AWordADay #AnuGarg #AWAD #Wordplay #DadJokes
In Anu Garg's weekday email, the word was "tangent" in a week of math/geometry terms.
Of course, my mind went:
Tangent: The dapper dude that sprays a certain orange-y bronze-ish color on an egomaniac and then tells him how great it looks.
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#AWordADay #AnuGarg #AWAD #Wordplay #DadJokes
In Anu Garg's weekday email, the word was "tangent" in a week of math/geometry terms.
Of course, my mind went:
Tangent: The dapper dude that sprays a certain orange-y bronze-ish color on an egomaniac and then tells him how great it looks.
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Another new word to me that I probably knew at one point. Maybe?
umbrageous
PRONUNCIATION:
(uhm-BRAY-juhs)MEANING:
adjective:
1. Inclined to take offense easily.
2. Cast in shadow; shaded.
3. Providing shade.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin umbra (shade, shadow) + -ous (full of). Earliest documented use: 1587. -
Another new word to me that I probably knew at one point. Maybe?
umbrageous
PRONUNCIATION:
(uhm-BRAY-juhs)MEANING:
adjective:
1. Inclined to take offense easily.
2. Cast in shadow; shaded.
3. Providing shade.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin umbra (shade, shadow) + -ous (full of). Earliest documented use: 1587. -
Another new word to me that I probably knew at one point. Maybe?
umbrageous
PRONUNCIATION:
(uhm-BRAY-juhs)MEANING:
adjective:
1. Inclined to take offense easily.
2. Cast in shadow; shaded.
3. Providing shade.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin umbra (shade, shadow) + -ous (full of). Earliest documented use: 1587. -
Another new word to me that I probably knew at one point. Maybe?
umbrageous
PRONUNCIATION:
(uhm-BRAY-juhs)MEANING:
adjective:
1. Inclined to take offense easily.
2. Cast in shadow; shaded.
3. Providing shade.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin umbra (shade, shadow) + -ous (full of). Earliest documented use: 1587. -
#Quotes #AndreMalraux #Sons #Trauma #Terrorist #AnuGarg #AWordADay
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. -Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian, and statesman (3 Nov 1901-1976) -
#Quotes #Atheist #AnuGarg #AWordADay
Not completely sure this is Anu's own quote, but I like it.A thousand thoughts and prayers amount to less than a single action.