February 2009 |
Feb 2 | Ayn Rand |
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Feb 3 | Gertrude Stein |
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Feb 4 | People said to be dead live longer |
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Feb 5 | Robert Peel |
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Feb 6 | Revisiting carbon 14, radioactive & half-life |
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Feb 9 | Gypsy Rose |
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Feb 10 | Boris Pasternak |
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Feb 11 | The obelus & metathesis |
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Feb 12 | The theory of evolution |
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Feb 13 | Hoopla |
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Feb 16 | Presidents' Day quotes |
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Feb 17 | Maginot Line |
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Feb 18 | Wallace Stegner |
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Feb 20 | Ask not for whom the bell tolls... |
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Feb 23 | W.E.B. DuBois |
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Feb 24 | Spay & unchartered waters |
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Feb 25 | Elevate & escalate |
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Feb 26 | Obscenity, indecency, & profanity |
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Feb 27 | Word for the Wise After Dark, and a few final words |
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January 2009 |
Jan 1 | Humbled |
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Jan 2 | Wishy-washy |
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Jan 5 | Twelfth Night |
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Jan 6 | Carl Sandburg |
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Jan 7 | Sprachgefuhl & karmadharaya |
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Jan 8 | Empathy |
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Jan 9 | Dagwood |
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Jan 12 | Edmund Burke & Jack London |
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Jan 13 | Strive |
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Jan 14 | Caesarean |
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Jan 15 | Mores |
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Jan 16 | Growler |
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Jan 19 | Poe Toaster & poetaster |
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Jan 20 | Manner & manor |
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Jan 21 | Never mind |
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Jan 22 | George Gordon Byron |
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Jan 23 | Upper crust |
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Jan 26 | Aboriginal words |
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Jan 27 | Patron & patronize |
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Jan 28 | Good & evil |
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Jan 29 | Thomas Paine |
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Jan 30 | Pedigree |
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December 2008 |
Dec 1 | Prevalent |
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Dec 2 | Joseph McCarthy & terms of 1954 |
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Dec 3 | Swine & pork |
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Dec 4 | Thomas Carlyle |
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Dec 5 | Begging the question |
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Dec 8 | Eli Whitney & the cotton gin |
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Dec 9 | John Milton |
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Dec 10 | Lethal |
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Dec 11 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
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Dec 12 | Staunch |
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Dec 15 | Bill of Rights & immunity |
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Dec 16 | Two notable women |
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Dec 17 | Carbon 14, radioactive & half-life |
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Dec 18 | Shibboleth |
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Dec 19 | Outfit & upstart |
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Dec 22 | Gorilla |
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Dec 23 | Bank |
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Dec 24 | Holy Mackerel |
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Dec 25 | A few adjectives of joy |
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Dec 26 | Smart |
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Dec 29 | Rasputin |
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Dec 30 | Mare's nest, maverick, and white man's burden |
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Dec 31 | Simon Wiesenthal & justice |
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November 2008 |
Nov 3 | Terms for mistakes & consequences |
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Nov 4 | Voting |
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Nov 5 | Guy |
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Nov 6 | What's good for the goose is good for the gander |
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Nov 7 | Happy medium or happy median, & compromise |
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Nov 10 | Indulgence |
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Nov 11 | Kurt Vonnegut |
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Nov 12 | Segue |
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Nov 13 | Jekyll and Hyde |
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Nov 14 | Self-conceit |
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Nov 17 | Homemade Bread Day |
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Nov 18 | Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre |
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Nov 19 | Historic & historical |
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Nov 20 | Pulchritude & whited sepulcher |
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Nov 21 | Voltaire |
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Nov 24 | Dale Carnegie |
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Nov 25 | Andrew Carnegie |
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Nov 26 | Down the rabbit hole |
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Nov 27 | Turkey terms |
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Nov 28 | Gap, notch & pass |
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October 2008 |
Oct 1 | Chinese terms from Chinese food |
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Oct 2 | Goose & gossamer |
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Oct 3 | Lonesome & lonely |
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Oct 6 | Dictionaries and the U.S. Supreme Court |
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Oct 7 | Duplicative & duplicate |
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Oct 8 | Carpool |
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Oct 9 | Atonement |
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Oct 10 | Double & redouble |
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Oct 13 | Words of 1925 |
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Oct 14 | Peregrinate |
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Oct 15 | Patriotism & nationalism |
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Oct 16 | Dictionary Day |
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Oct 17 | Tide |
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Oct 20 | Watergate & terms of 1973 |
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Oct 21 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Oct 22 | Ululate, keen & hanker |
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Oct 23 | Can & may |
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Oct 24 | Pork barrel, back scratching, & log rolling |
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Oct 27 | Theodore Roosevelt |
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Oct 28 | Colossus |
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Oct 29 | Terms for prisons and jails |
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Oct 30 | Taxonomy |
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Oct 31 | Graveyard & cemetery |
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September 2008 |
Sep 1 | Tarzan yell |
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Sep 2 | Flammable |
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Sep 3 | Tabloid |
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Sep 4 | Atlanta |
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Sep 5 | Stuck-up |
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Sep 8 | International Literacy Day |
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Sep 9 | Mao Ze Dong & the long march |
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Sep 10 | Crisp & crispy |
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Sep 11 | O. Henry |
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Sep 12 | Regardless, irregardless, & nevertheless |
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Sep 15 | Terms from American Spanish |
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Sep 16 | Torquemada & inquisition |
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Sep 17 | Lazy Susan & dumbwaiter |
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Sep 18 | Let alone |
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Sep 19 | Entomology & etymology |
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Sep 22 | Palooka |
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Sep 23 | Terms for "stupid people" |
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Sep 24 | Punctuation terms |
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Sep 25 | Peruse |
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Sep 26 | English |
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Sep 29 | Enrico Fermi |
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Sep 30 | Boilerplate |
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August 2008 |
Aug 1 | In fact & indeed |
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Aug 4 | Picnic |
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Aug 5 | Astrology & astronomy |
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Aug 6 | Streak & rationalize |
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Aug 7 | Terms of 1959 |
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Aug 8 | Muggy |
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Aug 11 | President pro tempore |
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Aug 12 | Terms & the general lexicon |
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Aug 13 | Hitchcockian & MacGuffin |
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Aug 14 | Chockfull, chock, & chockablock |
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Aug 15 | Whippersnapper |
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Aug 18 | Terms of retail |
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Aug 19 | Philo T. Farnsworth & Bart Simpson |
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Aug 20 | Mariner |
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Aug 21 | Hearsay & res getae |
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Aug 22 | Toe the line & jury-rig |
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Aug 25 | Some words about human kindness |
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Aug 26 | Sex & gender |
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Aug 27 | Cattycorner |
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Aug 28 | Roger Tory Peterson |
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Aug 29 | Kidnap |
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July 2008 |
Jul 1 | Dominion |
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Jul 2 | Smithereens |
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Jul 3 | Hysteria & effete |
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Jul 4 | Terms born in America |
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Jul 7 | Wiki |
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Jul 8 | Glass houses & glass ceiling |
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Jul 9 | Cure & curiosity |
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Jul 10 | Marcel Proust |
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Jul 11 | Martinet |
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Jul 14 | Woody Guthrie |
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Jul 15 | Terms born in baby talk |
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Jul 16 | Ida B. Wells |
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Jul 17 | Iron & irony |
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Jul 18 | Piece |
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Jul 22 | Gregor Mendel |
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Jul 23 | Private eye |
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Jul 24 | Cobwebs & spider webs |
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Jul 25 | Near miss |
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Jul 28 | Bonus Army |
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Jul 29 | Spendthrift |
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Jul 30 | Tinker's dam |
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Jul 31 | Shadow |
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June 2008 |
Jun 2 | Saint Elmo's fire |
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Jun 3 | Standing out from the herd |
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Jun 4 | National Tailors' Day |
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Jun 5 | John Maynard Keynes |
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Jun 6 | Afraid |
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Jun 9 | Schadenfreude revisited |
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Jun 10 | Terms of 1652 |
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Jun 11 | Ben Jonson |
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Jun 12 | Perfect and more perfect |
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Jun 13 | Could & couldn't care less |
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Jun 16 | Abraham Lincoln |
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Jun 17 | E-mail queries |
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Jun 18 | Hawks, doves, & the War of 1812 |
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Jun 19 | Chatty |
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Jun 20 | Master of ceremonies & toast |
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Jun 23 | An improved type-writer |
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Jun 24 | Rhubarb |
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Jun 25 | Mildred Gillars |
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Jun 26 | Anarchists |
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Jun 27 | Upset & factoid |
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Jun 30 | They |
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May 2008 |
May 1 | Terms of the ear |
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May 2 | Robert's Rules & rules of apostrophes |
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May 5 | Nellie |
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May 6 | Sigmund Freud |
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May 7 | Freebie & swag |
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May 8 | Nonchalance |
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May 9 | Where books are burned |
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May 12 | Roadometer & odometer |
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May 13 | The exactly right word |
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May 14 | Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit |
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May 15 | Nylon |
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May 16 | Rhubarb |
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May 19 | Terms of decapitation |
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May 20 | Terms of aviation history |
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May 21 | The flip side |
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May 22 | Arthur Conan Doyle |
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May 23 | Corduroy & corduroy road |
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May 26 | Terms of the dead |
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May 27 | Shamus |
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May 28 | Swan song |
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May 29 | Much |
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May 30 | Gilding the lily |
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April 2008 |
Apr 1 | James Boswell |
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Apr 2 | Emile Zola |
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Apr 3 | Space |
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Apr 4 | The @ |
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Apr 7 | Walter Winchell |
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Apr 8 | Superior |
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Apr 9 | Daffynitions |
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Apr 10 | Quixotic |
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Apr 11 | The Civil Rights Act, & terms of 1968 |
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Apr 14 | Samuel Mudd |
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Apr 15 | Henry James |
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Apr 16 | Bunting |
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Apr 17 | Thornton Wilder |
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Apr 18 | Digerati & digeratus |
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Apr 21 | Charlotte Bronte |
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Apr 22 | Chemists Celebrate Earth Day |
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Apr 23 | The death dates of two great writers |
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Apr 24 | Cygnet & swan |
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Apr 25 | Serendipity |
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Apr 28 | Circadian & nycthemeral |
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Apr 29 | World Dance Day |
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Apr 30 | Fray & affray |
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