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Word of the Day for Thursday, May 26, 2011clinquant \KLING-kunt\, adjective: 1. Glittering with gold or silver; tinseled. noun: Leaves flicker celadon in the spring, viridian in summer, clinquant in fall, tallying the sovereign seasons, graying and greening to reiterate the message of snow and sun. The room had a twelve-foot high ceiling: hanging from it, four dimly lit antique brass chandeliers cast a clinquant glow on this sunless day. The water, turned clinquant by the sunset, lay rather than stood. Clinquant is from French, glistening, tinkling, present participle of obsolete clinquer, to clink, perhaps from Middle Dutch klinken. | |||||||||
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  Sorry letter z! Learn why z was removed from the alphabet, and what now-extinct letter used to be No. 27What letter is used most rarely in English? Poor lonely z finishes up the alphabet at number 26. The final letter, z's history includes a time when it was so infrequently used that it was removed altogether. � The Greek zeta is the origin of the humble z. The Phoenician glyph zayin, meaning "weapon," had a long... | |||||||||
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