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We Guarantee a Penguin Editor Will Read Your Manuscript! You'll Receive Written Feedback on Your Writing! Try our online writing course and learn from literary greats like Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Clancy and Amy Tan. Here's Your Chance to Get Published! Click Here to Learn More. http://www.insidesessions.com/promos/promowriting_ec.asp?rid=647 <a href="http://www.insidesessions.com/promos/promowriting_ec.asp?rid=647"< AOL users click here </a< \-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/ Word of the Day for Monday December 10, 2001: autochthonous \aw-TOCK-thuh-nuhs\, adjective: 1. Aboriginal; indigenous; native. 2. Formed or originating in the place where found. For cultures are not monoliths. They are fragmentary, patchworks of autochthonous and foreign elements. --Anthony Pagden, "Culture Wars," [1]The New Republic, November 16, 1998 I thought of the present-day Arcadians, autochthonous, sprung from the very earth on which they live, who with every draught from a stream drink up millennia of history and legend. --Zachary Taylor, "Hot Land, Cold Water," [2]The Atlantic, June 17, 1998 _________________________________________________________ Autochthonous derives from Greek autochthon, "of or from the earth or land itself," from auto-, "self" + chthon, "earth." One that is autochthonous is an autochthon (pronounced \aw-TOCK-thuhn\). References 1. http://www.tnr.com/ 2. http://www.theatlantic.com/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: susan.w.pereira@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-301289Q@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) 2001, Lexico LLC.
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