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Word of the Day for Wednesday, May 25, 2011sojourn \SOH-juhrn; so-JURN\, intransitive verb: 1. To stay as a temporary resident; to dwell for a time. noun: Though he has sojourned in Southwold, wandered in Walberswick, dabbled in Dunwich, ambled through Aldeburgh and blundered through Blythburgh, Smallweed has never set foot in Orford. Yet he is now an accomplished student and speaker of English, a literary editor and television producer, someone who has sojourned in Paris and attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. As chance would have it, Degas's five-month sojourn in New Orleans coincided with an extraordinarily contentious period in the stormy political history of the city. During that long sojourn in Sligo, from 1870 to 1874, he had lessons from a much loved nursemaid, Ellie Connolly; later he received coaching in spelling and dictation from Esther Merrick, a neighbour who lived in the Sexton's house by St John's, and who read him quantities of verse. Sojourn comes from Old French sojorner, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin subdiurnare, from Latin sub-, "under, a little over" + Late Latin diurnus, "lasting for a day," from Latin dies, "day." | |||||||||
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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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