Friday, May 4, 2012

Sesquipedalian Is Polysyllabic

 
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What single item is worth $119,900,000?





Sotheby's New York sold Edvard Munch's 1895 "The Scream" for $119.9 million on Wednesday night, May 2, 2012, setting a record for the most expensive artwork sold at auction.

Good Lord!
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WORD FOR TODAY

sesquipedalian
adj.
1.   tending to use very long words
2.   (of words or expressions) long and ponderous; polysyllabic
noun
3.   a polysyllabic word
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BORN ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY


Born May 4, 1941
 
was awarded to George Will in 1977.
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Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"
--George Will
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