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Word of the Day for Monday, May 23, 2011longueur \long-GUR\, noun: A dull and tedious passage in a book, play, musical composition, or the like. One of the commentators compared my speech to one of Gladstone's which had lasted five hours. "It was not so long, but some of the speech's . . . longueurs made Gladstone seem the soul of brevity," he wrote. If this book of 400 pages had been devoted to her alone, it would have been filled with longueurs, but as the biography of a family it has the merit of originality. This book . . . has its defects. Sometimes it loses focus (as in a longueur on Chechens living in Jordan). Longueur is from French (where it means "length"), ultimately deriving from Latin longus, "long," which is also the source of English long. | |||||||||
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  Why you should remember the following words every 13 years or soA vociferous buzz is radiating throughout parts of Alabama and making the news. From the brilliant, first light of day to the still and dark of night, a serenade is being sung - a mating call thirteen years in the making. Millions of cicadas have come up from their underground bedrooms after completing a very... | |||||||||
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