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  • New word for the day.

    Post in this thread every time you learn a new word each day.

    Today's word is: Quiddity - The essence of a thing.
    Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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    Then Quidditch (from Harry Potter) would be playing with the essence of your thing?
    "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
    "Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
    2004 Presidential Candidate
    2008 Presidential Candidate (for what its worth)

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    • #3
      Skug.


      I was leafing through the dictionary and came across 'skug'. What an unlovely word.
      Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

      ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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