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Word of the Day for Monday, April 18, 2011corybantic \kawr-uh-BAN-tik\, adjective: Frenzied; agitated; unrestrained. The key turned with a snap, the door was flung open, and there stood Martha, in a corybantic attitude, brandishing a dinner-plate in one hand, a poker in the other ; her hair was dishevelled, her face red, and fury blazed in her eyes. I have a vivid recollection of him in the mysteries of the semicuacua, a somewhat corybantic dance which left much to the invention of the performers, and very little to the imagination of the spectator. Corybantic owes its English use from Latin, but originally refered to a Corybant, a a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele. | |||||||||
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  Where and when did language begin? A remarkable new study may have the answerThe origin of spoken language has stumped linguistics dating as far back as the Twenty-sixth dynasty in Egypt and the first recorded language experiment conducted by a Pharaoh named Psammetichus I. While it is widely understood that our ability to communicate through speech sets us apart from other animals,�language experts, historians and scientists can only... | |||||||||
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