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FOR US RESIDENTS Do you suffer from heartburn on 2 or more days a week? Find out more and Click For 7 Day Free Trial! http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/49498/163960/163960 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/49498/163960/163960"< AOL users click here </a< \-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/ Word of the Day for Monday March 25, 2002: farrago \fuh-RAH-go; fuh-RAY-go\, noun; plural farragoes: A confused mixture; an assortment; a medley. Ivan Illich writes "a farrago of sub-Marxist cliches, false analogies, non sequiturs, false or bent facts and weird prophesies." --"The Paul Johnson Enemies List," [1]New York Times, September 18, 1977 Roy Hattersley will upset much of Scotland by calling Walter Scott's lvanhoe "a farrago of historical nonsense combined with maudlin romance." --"Literary classics panned by critics," [2]Independent, January 18, 1999 From the moment the story of the Countess of Wessex and the Sheikh of Wapping broke, there has been a farrago of rumour, speculation and fantasy of which virtually every newspaper should be ashamed. --Roy Greenslade, "A sting in the tale," [3]The Guardian, April 9, 2001 _________________________________________________________ Farrago comes from the Latin farrago, "a mixed fodder for cattle," hence "a medley, a hodgepodge," from far, a sort of grain. References 1. http://www.nytimes.com/ 2. http://www.independent.co.uk/www/ 3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: matt.motley@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-357530C@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2002 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
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