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How does your credit report present you to prospective employers, loan officers, and landlords? Find out with your FREE CREDIT REPORT & free CreditCheck(R) Monitoring Service trial membership from ConsumerInfo.Com! Get yours now! http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/34419/163176/163176 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/34419/163176/163176"< AOL users click here </a< \-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/ Word of the Day for Thursday March 21, 2002: logorrhea \law-guh-REE-uh\, noun: Excessive talkativeness or wordiness. By his own measure, he is a man of many contradictions, beginning with the fact that he is famous as a listener but suffers from "a touch of logorrhea." He is so [1]voluble that one wonders how his subjects get a word in edgewise. --Mel Gussow, "Listener, Talker, Now Literary Lion: It's Official." [2]New York Times, June 17, 1997 It's also not good if your date has logorrhea. --Monte Williams, "8 Minutes in the Life of a Jewish Single: Not Attracted? Next!" [3]New York Times, March 5, 2000 Mr. King, who possesses an enviable superabundance of imagination, suffers from a less enviable logorrhea. --Michele Slung, "Scare Tactics." [4]New York Times, May 10, 1981 _________________________________________________________ Logorrhea is derived from Greek logos, "word" + rhein, "to flow." References 1. http://dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2002/02/17.html 2. http://www.nytimes.com/ 3. http://www.nytimes.com/ 4. http://www.nytimes.com/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ 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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