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Word of the Day for Friday, May 27, 2011dudgeon \DUH-juhn\, noun: A state or fit of intense indignation; resentment; ill humor -- often used in the phrase "in high dudgeon." Higgins was so frustrated by such a basic error that he stormed out of the arena for the mid-session interval in high dudgeon. This woman is forever in a state of spiritual high dudgeon, and a list of her dislikes is as long as the Omaha phone book. What you see, they reckon, is all there is: a media star of fading allure--and shortening temper, if his dudgeon over a television soap-opera satire about him called "How was I, Doris?" (a reference to his fourth wife) is anything to go by. The origin of dudgeon is unknown. | |||||||||
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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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