The Word of the Day for July 28, 2010 is:
FRIABLE • \FRYE-uh-bul\ • adjective
: easily crumbled or pulverized
Example Sentence:
These plants will grow best in a soft, friable soil.
Did you know?
"Friable" entered into English in the mid-1500s, and was borrowed either from Middle French or directly from Latin "friabilis." This Latin adjective comes from the verb "friare," which means "to crumble." "Fiare" in turn is related to the verb "fricare" ("to rub"), the source of the English noun "friction." "Friable" is used to describe something that can be easily reduced to a powdered form. In contemporary usage, it is often found in the discussion of asbestos. Health concerns about asbestos primarily center around friable asbestos -- that is, asbestos that is easily pulverized into tiny fibers which may remain suspended in the air and become a potential health risk to those who inhale them.

And for those few of us who actually understand the English language I offer this to those unfortunate ones who do not.

ARTERY = The study of Paintings

Paintings - what you feel when you drop a knife on your foot! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

The Word of the Day for July 29, 2010 is:
ADJURE • \uh-JOOR\ • verb
1 : to command solemnly under or as if under oath or penalty of a curse
*2 : to urge or advise earnestly
Example Sentence:
"Byron fled the country, adjuring Annabella to 'be kind' to his beloved sister." (Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times, September 16, 2002)
Did you know?
"Adjure" and its synonyms "entreat," "importune," and "implore" all mean "to ask earnestly." "Entreat" implies an effort to persuade or overcome resistance. "Importune" goes further, adding a sense of annoying persistence in trying to break down resistance to a request. "Implore," on the other hand, suggests a great urgency or anguished appeal on the part of the speaker. "Adjure" implies advising as well as pleading, and is sometimes accompanied by the invocation of something sacred. Be careful not to confuse "adjure" with "abjure," meaning "to renounce solemnly" or "to abstain from." Both words are rooted in Latin "jurare," meaning "to swear," but "adjure" includes the prefix "ad-," meaning "to" or "toward," whereas "abjure" draws on "ab-," meaning "from" or "away."

And for the less learned among us:

Bacteria = back door to the cafeteria.

The Word of the Day for July 30, 2010 is:
INCHOATE • \in-KOH-ut\ • adjective
: being only partly in existence or operation; especially : imperfectly formed or formulated
Example Sentence:
Kate had an inchoate suspicion that things were about to go wrong, but she was unable to think of any concrete reason for her concern.
Did you know?
"Inchoate" derives from "inchoare," which means "to begin" in Latin but translates literally as "to hitch up." "Inchoare" was formed from the prefix "in-" and the noun "cohum," which refers to the strap that secures a plow beam to a pulling animal's yoke. The concept of implementing this initial step toward the larger task of plowing a field can help provide a clearer understanding of "inchoate," an adjective used to describe the imperfect form of something (as a plan or idea) in its early stages of development. Perhaps because it looks a little like the word "chaos" (although the two aren't closely related), "inchoate" now not only implies the formlessness that often marks beginnings, but also the confusion caused by chaos.

And for all us NORMAL country folks:

Barium = What Doctors do to patients that die.

The Word of the Day for July 31, 2010 is:
SIRENIAN • \sye-REE-nee-un\ • noun
: any of an order (Sirenia) of aquatic herbivorous mammals (as a manatee, dugong, or Steller's sea cow) that have large forelimbs resembling paddles, no hind limbs, and a flattened tail resembling a fin
Example Sentence:
"Looking humanlike in certain aspects, sirenians are thought to be the basis of the myth of mermaids." (Michael McCarthy, The Independent [London], February 28, 2009)
Did you know?
"Sirenian" traces back via Latin to Greek "seir&#275;n," which is equivalent to our word for the sirens of Greek mythology. And what is the connection between sirens and sirenians? Modern sirenians do not resemble the half bird, half woman creatures who lured sailors to their doom with their sweet singing. But as our example sentence states, sirenians are considered by some to underlie the ancient legends about mermaids. In European folklore mermaids were sometimes called "sirens," and apparently this confusion resulted in the granting of sirenians the name they bear today.

And for those who have sunburned necks

CESAREAN SECTION= A neighborhood in Rome!

SPECIAL FOR ALL YOU MUSICIANS AMOUNG US, THIS IS FOR YOU!!!!!!!!

The Word of the Day for August 01, 2010 is:
EISTEDDFOD • \eye-STETH-vawd\ • noun
: a usually Welsh competitive festival of the arts especially in poetry and singing
Example Sentence:
This year's eisteddfod featured some exceptional recorder and guitar playing, but as in past years it was the bards who were the highlight of the festival.
Did you know?
In Medieval times, Welsh bards and minstrels would assemble together for an "eisteddfod" (the Welsh word for "session") of poetry and music competition. Over time, participation and interest in these competitions lessened, and by the 17th century an eisteddfod was far from the courtly affair it once was. The competition was revived in the 19th century as a way to showcase Wales's artistic culture. It was also in that century that an official council was formed to organize the annual National Eisteddfod of Wales, an event still held each summer alternately in North or South Wales. There are awards for music, prose, drama, and art, but the one for poetry remains the eisteddfod's pinnacle.

And for those of us who care about the lost, this:

CATSCAN = looking for your Kitty!

The Word of the Day for August 04, 2010 is:
ZWIEBACK • \SWEE-back\ • noun
: a usually sweetened bread enriched with eggs that is baked and then sliced and toasted until dry and crisp
Example Sentence:
"It's the cheesiest of cheesecakes, with a zwieback crumb crust." (Tina Danze, The Dallas Morning News, February 2, 2000)
Did you know?
In ages past, keeping food fresh for any length of time required a lot of ingenuity, especially when one needed to carry comestibles on a long journey. One of the solutions people came up with for keeping bread edible for traveling was to bake it twice, thereby drying it and slowing the spoiling process. The etymology of "zwieback" reflects this baker's trick; it was borrowed from a German word that literally means "twice baked." Nowadays, zwieback is not just used as a foodstuff -- the texture of the dried bread makes zwieback a suitable teething device for infants.

And for those of us who are animal lovers, I offer up this:

COLIC= A sheep Dog.

I think I might like some zwieback with my soup today.

The Word of the Day for August 05, 2010 is:
COLLOQUY • \KAH-luh-kwee\ • noun
1 : conversation, dialogue
*2 : a high-level serious discussion : conference
Example Sentence:
The company's employees worried and speculated as the executive team remained closeted in an intense colloquy for the entire morning.
Did you know?
"Colloquy" may make you think of "colloquial," and there is indeed a connection between the two words. As a matter of fact, "colloquy" is the parent word from which "colloquial" was coined in the mid-18th century. "Colloquy" itself, though now the less common of the two words, has been a part of the English language since the 15th century. It is a descendant of Latin "loqui," meaning "to speak." Other descendants of "loqui" in English include "eloquent," "loquacious," "ventriloquism," and "soliloquy," as well as "elocution" and "interlocutor."

And for all us NORMAL folks that actually use words folks can understand, this:

COMA = A punctuation mark. (It's just a dot with a little dangly hanging from it) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I thought a COMA was something the English teacher puts you in for mis-spelling a word on punctuation, like a COMMA.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />yeah, we Could expect something like that from a TEACHER! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

The Word of the Day for August 06, 2010 is:
EIGHTY-SIX • \ay-tee-SIKS\ • verb, slang
: to refuse to serve (a customer); also : to get rid of : throw out
Example Sentence:
"NBC's Hannah Storm eighty-sixed her real last name, Storen, when her first employer, a heavy-metal-oriented radio station in Corpus Christi, asked her to host a show titled Storm by the Sea." (Sports Illustrated, September 25, 2000)
Did you know?
If you work in a restaurant or bar, you might eighty-six (or "eliminate") a menu item when you run out of it, or you might eighty-six (or "cut off") a customer who should no longer be served. "Eighty-six" is still used in this specific context, but it has also entered the general language. These days, you don’t have to be a worker in a restaurant or bar to eighty-six something -- you just have to be someone with something to get rid of or discard. There are many popular but unsubstantiated theories about the origin of "eighty-six." The explanation judged most probable by Merriam-Webster etymologists is that the word was created as a rhyming slang word for "nix," which means "to veto" or "to reject."

And for course for those others:

D & C = Where the Nations capitol is. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />