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Word of the Day for Saturday, April 9, 2011tenterhooks \TEN-ter-hooks\, noun: 1. On tenterhooks, in a state of uneasy suspense or painful anxiety. "I wait on tenterhooks to see if my ploy of last night will yield the desired outcome." "Such as the fact that this Sevarin has been dangling after Miss Stone in earnest, and the village seems to be hanging on tenterhooks in expectation of a betrothel announcement." Tenterhooks usually occurs in the idiomatic phrase "on tenterhooks," from the type of hook that that hold cloth stretched on a tenter. | |||||||||
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  Why is one man primarily responsible for the existence of the letter "J," and what letter did it split off from?Recently we asked you to let us know which of the twenty-six letters of the alphabet you'd like us to investigate. A resounding number of you suggested the consonant /j/. From its humble beginnings as a Roman numeral to its eventual tenth position in the English alphabet, /j/ has had quite a linguistic journey. "J" is... | |||||||||
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