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Word of the Day for Tuesday, June 14, 2011orison \AWR-uh-zuhn\, noun: A prayer. Federigo, disappointed of the supper that he was to have had with her, and apprehending the words of the orison aright, hied him to the garden, and having found the two capons and the wine and the eggs at the foot of the peach-tree, took them home with him, and supped very comfortably. The orison that passed her rosy lips was for my present and eternal happiness; and so innocently but ardently was the petition offered up, that I knelt beside her and united my prayer to hers. Orison derives from the Late Latin oratio-, a conjugation of the Latin "plea, oration." | |||||||||
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  After 90 years, scholars finish a 21-volume dictionary for an extinct language. Why?With over 7,000 known�languages spoken around the world today, it may seem fruitless for scholars to have spent the past 90 years creating a dictionary for a language that has been extinct for nearly 2,000 years. Hold on; Let's look at the reasons for the immense effort, and form our judgements afterwards. Originally modeled on the... | |||||||||
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