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BECOME A FOOL! For stock ideas, retire-early strategies, and money-saving tips Register for free with The Motley Fool You'll receive our "13 Steps to Investing Foolishly" guide, free Plus, access to our irreverent take on all things financial. http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/47328/160793/160793 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/47328/160793/160793"< AOL users click here </a< \-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/ Word of the Day for Thursday March 14, 2002: raconteur \rack-on-TUR\, noun: One who excels in telling stories and anecdotes. An excellent raconteur, he had a varied stock of stories and enjoyed the joke just as much when it was on himself as he did when it was on some one else. --"Rockefeller Wit Endeared Him to Friends; He Relished Quip by Will Rogers About Him," [1]New York Times, May 24, 1937 Korda's tone of voice is affectionate and urbane, his manner that of the accomplished raconteur who never spoils the story with a heavy-handed moral, relying for his effect on the telling anecdote and the apt phrase. --Lewis Lapham, "Adventures in the Book Trade," [2]New York Times, May 23, 1999 He has an excellent raconteur's mind, memory, vocabulary and tongue, brings in a story just at the right time, in the right manner, serves his anecdotes perfectly either piping hot or ice-cold as tragedies. --Anatole Pohorilenko and James Crump, When We Were Three _________________________________________________________ Raconteur is from French, from raconter, "to relate, to tell, to narrate," from Old French, from re- + aconter, "to count up, to reckon." References 1. http://www.nytimes.com/ 2. 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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