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Word of the Day for Friday, April 22, 2011homunculus \huh-MUHNG-kyuh-luhs\, noun: 1. An artificially made miniature person or creature, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist. There is no little homunculus up there watching reality on a screen and then deciding how to proceed. Goethe made the experiment famous in Faust, where an adept grows a homunculus in a bottle, but it is extremely rare in the alchemical literature. Homunculus is a borrowing from Latin, literally meaning "little person." homo- equals "man, human being," and -culus is a suffix meaning "small," from which English derives the suffix -cle. | |||||||||
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  Why do we use capital and lower case letters, and how did both types come to be?Capitalization rules tend to vary by language and can be quite complicated.� It is widely understood that the first word of a sentence and all proper nouns are always capitalized. However, what is not so clear is the origin of the upper case distinction that has become common practice, especially in regards to Modern English.... | |||||||||
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