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Word of the Day for Sunday, June 5, 2011pangram \PAN-gruhm\, noun: A sentence, verse, etc., that includes all the letters of the alphabet. Formerly Utopianna, the country's name was changed in 1904 to honor native son Nevin Nollop, the author of the popular pangram sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." The ideal pangram contains each letter only once, but it is difficult to compose a meaningful sentence of this kind. Pangram is combination of the Greek pan-, "all," and -gram, "related to writing." | |||||||||
 Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom?Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges | |||||||||
  What does the "bee" in "spelling bee" mean exactly? And what was the winning word in this year's Scripps Spelling Bee?Earlier this week, 275 spellers from across the country and around the globe gathered in Oxon Hill, Maryland to take part in the 84th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. By Thursday afternoon, 13 extremely ambitious wordsmiths had advanced to the final round and, by Thursday night, a champion was crowned. Before we unveil the name... | |||||||||
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