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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search ... Word of the Week ... Links for Word Lovers...
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Word of the Week ... Links for Word Lovers...
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Astronomer Nathaniel Bowditch had the greatest single influence on U.S. navigation and seamanship. His Practical Navigator ("the seaman's ... Since modest Biographer Berry has had the good sense to let Bowditch's story tell itself with a minimum of literary asides and insights, ... Nathaniel Bowditch was born in Salem in 1773.
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How well he educated U.S. seamen, Salem Shipmaster George Crowninshield liked to illustrate with a story. One day in a European port, German Astronomer Franz Xaver von Zach visited Crowninshield's yacht, expressed surprise that anybody on board could take "Our cook can do that!" ... Lonely Scientist. Settled in Salem again,
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There are more Shakespeare references in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Welcome to the oldest Shakespeare blog on the net ... Wednesday, June 07, 2006 ... A friend sent me the link to yesterday's Word A Day word, asking if I'd ever heard of it through the Shakespeare connection. Apparently a character in Love...
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Most of the words which are given as 'the longest word' are merely inventions, and when they occur it is almost always as examples of long words, rather than as genuine examples of use. ... In Voltaire's Candide, Pangloss is supposed to have given lectures on metaphysico ... This kind of verbal game originates, so far as...
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main source: A Word a Day ... From Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words ... pronunciation: hippopoto-monstro-sesquipedalian...
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