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Word of the Day for Sunday, April 17, 2011scurrilous \SKUR-uh-luhs\, adjective: 1. Grossly or obscenely abusive. As always with scurrilous rumors, 'tis best to do nothing. But, promised the Prime Minister as he began, the speech would take only seven hours, at the most, providing the Opposition did not interrupt too often with scurrilous irrelevancies. Scurrilous likely traces its origin to the Etruscan language, coming into Latin as scurrilis, "fashionable city idler," and, later, "buffoon." | |||||||||
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  Where and when did language begin? A remarkable new study may have the answerThe origin of spoken language has stumped linguistics dating as far back as the Twenty-sixth dynasty in Egypt and the first recorded language experiment conducted by a Pharaoh named Psammetichus I. While it is widely understood that our ability to communicate through speech sets us apart from other animals,�language experts, historians and scientists can only... | |||||||||
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