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Word of the Day for Thursday, February 3, 2011eclat \ey-KLAH\, noun: 1. Brilliance of success, reputation, etc. It was a great object with her to escape all enquiry or éclat; but it was her intention to be as decidedly cool to him as might be compatible with their relationship ; and to retrace, as quietly as she could, the few steps of unnecessary intimacy she had been gradually led along. Aimee's Bistro combines Parisian eclat with contemporary California beach chic in this well- established bistro. Eclat comes from the French eclat, "fragment, burst, splinter, flash," which relates to esclater, "to burst, break violently." | |||||||||
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  If "w" is double u, why is it made of two v's?The 23rd letter of the English alphabet is a bit of a wonder. The humble "w" is the only letter of the alphabet with a three-syllable name. It is also the only letter with a name that does not indicate its phonetic use. The complications of "w" are doublefold because of it's name, 'double u' and... | |||||||||
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