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Word of the Day for Tuesday, March 15, 2011blandishment \BLAN-dish-muhnt\, noun: Speech or action that flatters and tends to coax, entice, or persuade; allurement -- often used in the plural. But she had not risen at all to the law fellow's blandishments, his attempts to interest her in his ideas and persuade her to set forth her own. And that my English-speaking victims find my blandishments so pretty, accented as they are, and yield to my soft lustrous Italian pronunciations, is a constant source of bliss for me. Perfect, gentle reader: I will not begin this book with a tribute to your discernment, because a person of your obvious accomplishments would certainly be immune to such blandishments. Blandishment ultimately comes from Latin blandiri, "to flatter, caress, coax," from blandus, "flattering, mild." | |||||||||
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  Why is today "Pi Day," and what is pi short for in the original Greek?Today is 3/14, otherwise known as Pi Day - the holiday commemorating the mathematical constant π (pi). Since mathematic notation is a language that uses symbols from a multitude of alphabets and typefaces, it seems only fitting that this sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet get a little attention. The Latin name of the Greek letter... | |||||||||
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