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Word of the Day for Sunday, May 1, 2011incommodious \in-kuh-MOH-dee-uhs\, adjective: Inconvenient, as not affording sufficient space or room; uncomfortable Some poets have seen death's offer in many forms and accepted the outcome but ignored incommodious invitations. After dragging petticoats and skirts, even shortened ones, over many miles of prairie, I should find trousers much less incommodious. Incommodious begins in the Latin commodus, "convenient." | |||||||||
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  Is this goodbye to the typewriter? Learn the love story that helped create the typewriterTypewriter enthusiasts around the globe are probably feeling a bit blue this week after hearing that Godrej and Boyce, one of the world's last operational typewriter factories located in Mumbai, India, closed its doors for the last time after an impressive one-hundred-and-fourteen year run. Once regarded as an indispensable device for any writer, the typewriter... | |||||||||
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