<html>from linda--note time sequence of month/year/etc.<BR><BR>---------- Forwarded Message ----------<BR>From: "Wordsmith" <wsmith@wordsmith.org><BR>To: lindafowens@netzero.net<BR>Subject: A.Word.A.Day--defenestrate<BR>Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:17:48 -0400<BR><BR>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 19px">A.Word.A.Day</DIV>with Anu Garg<BR><BR>I've been alerted to an event that will take place later this week, something that happens once and only once over the course of history. Shortly after noon on July 8, comes the moment that can be called 12:34:56 7/8/9. To mark this momentous event, this week we'll feature words that have three consecutive letters in order, something that doesn't happen very often either (there are hundreds of everyday words, but we are talking here about unusual and interesting words).<BR><BR>It's not exactly true that this sequence of time/date happens only once. If you follow the day/month/year convention, you can observe the same sequence next month, on August 7. And even though it appears to be a rare occurrence, such interesting patterns aren't that unusual. Consider these from the past:<BR>01:23:45 6/7/89<BR>12:34.56 7/8/90<BR>01:02:03 04/05/06<BR>In a couple of years we'll have 11:11:11 11/11/11. What other unusual patterns can you think of that are in the near future?
<H3>defenestrate </H3>
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<DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: #aaaaaa; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">PRONUNCIATION:</DIV>(dee-FEN-uh-strayt) <A href="http://wordsmith.org/words/defenestrate.mp3"><IMG height=24 alt="" src="http://wordsmith.org/words/images/sound-icon.png" width=32 align=middle border=0></A>
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<DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: #aaaaaa; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">MEANING:</DIV><I>verb tr.:</I> To throw someone or something out of a window. <BR><BR>
<DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: #aaaaaa; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">ETYMOLOGY:</DIV>From Latin de- (out of) + fenestra (window). <BR><BR>
<DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: #aaaaaa; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">NOTES:</DIV>There have been many defenestrations over the course of history, but the most famous, and the one that inspired the word defenestration, was the Defenestration of Prague on May 23, 1618 . Two imperial regents and their secretary were thrown out of a window of the Prague Castle in a fight over religion. The men landed on a dung heap and survived. The Defenestration of Prague was a prelude to the Thirty Years' War.<BR>See a <A href="http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=356064">Lego sculpture</A> of the Defenestration of Prague. Also, check out the defenestration of various articles of furniture in this unique San Francisco <A href="http://www.defenestration.org/">sculpture</A>. <BR><BR>
<DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: #aaaaaa; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">USAGE:</DIV>"When someone in a Joe Lansdale novel is defenestrated, you feel like shaking the glass shards out of your lap."<BR>Jeff Salamon; The Further Adventures of Hap and Leonard; The Austin American-Statesman (Texas); Jul 4, 2009 . <BR><BR>
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