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Word of the Day for Thursday, April 21, 2011mumbo jumbo \MUHM-boh JUHM-boh\, noun: 1. Senseless or pretentious language, usually designed to obscure an issue, confuse a listener, or the like. You go into people's houses, do some mumbo jumbo, right, they don't know the difference. How much do you make? I despise his mumbo jumbo, his fanatical adherents, his arcane incantations to the psyche, his dreamy unprovable theories, his endless categorizations of all things human. Though the popular impression is that mumbo jumbo derives from an African language of the Niger region, this supposition is unproven, and the term's origin is uncertain. | |||||||||
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  Why do we use capital and lower case letters, and how did both types come to be?Capitalization rules tend to vary by language and can be quite complicated.� It is widely understood that the first word of a sentence and all proper nouns are always capitalized. However, what is not so clear is the origin of the upper case distinction that has become common practice, especially in regards to Modern English.... | |||||||||
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