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Word of the Day for Thursday, May 12, 2011Zeitgeist \TSYT-guyst; ZYT-guyst\, noun: [Often capitalized] The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time. The best writers of that predawn era were originals who had the zeitgeist by the tail. As most critics and all professors of cultural theory note, Madonna is nothing if not a skilled reader of the zeitgeist. Besides, the zeitgeist seems to be working against any hope of Hormel officials to limit...the usage of [the word] 'spam' on the Web. Like other figures who seem, in retrospect, to have been precociously representative of their times, Kerouac was not simply responding to the Zeitgeist, but to the peculiarly twisted facts of his own upbringing. Zeitgeist is from the German: Zeit, "time" + Geist, "spirit." | |||||||||
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  What did the letter A originally sound and look like, and what animal was its inspiration?There is quite a bit of mystery surrounding the letter A. From its prestigious first place position to its interesting character origin - tracing the first letter of the English alphabet uncovers a history of honor that begins with, of all things, an ox. The letter 'A' is derived from the Phoenician letter 'Aleph' - a... | |||||||||
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