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Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 5, 2011irascible \ih-RASS-uh-buhl\, adjective: Prone to anger; easily provoked to anger; hot-tempered. The lawyer described his client as an irascible eighty-two-year-old eccentric who alternated between spinning fascinating tales about her past and cussing him out. His father was an irascible and boastful bully, a heavy drinker and a gambler. Irascible is from Latin irascibilis, "prone to anger," from ira, "anger," which is also the source of ire and irate. | |||||||||
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  Did one man write the first great English dictionary all by himself? Not quite, but closeThis month marks the 256th anniversary of the publication of "A Dictionary of the English Language," the first definitive English dictionary. Today, we'd like to take a moment to celebrate the man behind the book, the famous (and infamous) Dr. Samuel Johnson. "A Dictionary of the English Language," also called Johnson's Dictionary, is the work of... | |||||||||
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