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Unlimited Legal Advice for Pennies a Day Legal Services for only PENNIES A DAY from Top Rated Law Firms in your area. Free Court Appearances, Unlimited Consultations, and phone conversations, covering all 26 areas of the legal system. Service available in the US and Canada only. http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/46735/161768/161768 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/46735/161768/161768"< AOL users click here </a< \-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/ Word of the Day for Saturday March 16, 2002: peccadillo \peck-uh-DIL-oh\, noun: A slight offense; a petty fault. No peccadillo is too trivial: we learn that the mogul once blew his top because his laundry came back starched (" 'Fluff and fold!' he screamed"). --Eric P. Nash, "High Concept," [1]New York Times, May 10, 1998 And besides, "what do they say? 'Don't judge lest you be judged.' Everybody has their peccadilloes." -- "Tyson has a friend in his corner," [2]Irish Times, October 21,1999 Child of a dominant mother, victim of a guilt-ridden conscience, [St. Augustine] wrote bewilderingly haunted 'Confessions,' in which infantile peccadilloes like stealing apples and adolescent fumblings with instinctive sexuality are bewailed with all the anguish of a frustrated perfectionist. --Geoffrey Parker, "True Believers," [3]New York Times, June 29, 1997 _________________________________________________________ Peccadillo comes from Spanish pecadillo, "little sin," diminutive of pecado, "sin," from Latin peccatum, from peccare, "to make a mistake, to err, to sin." It is related to impeccable, "without flaw or fault." References 1. http://www.nytimes.com/ 2. http://www.ireland.com/ 3. 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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