| February 2009 |
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| Feb 2 | Ayn Rand |
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| Feb 3 | Gertrude Stein |
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| Feb 4 | People said to be dead live longer |
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| Feb 5 | Robert Peel |
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| Feb 6 | Revisiting carbon 14, radioactive & half-life |
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| Feb 9 | Gypsy Rose |
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| Feb 10 | Boris Pasternak |
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| Feb 11 | The obelus & metathesis |
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| Feb 12 | The theory of evolution |
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| Feb 13 | Hoopla |
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| Feb 16 | Presidents' Day quotes |
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| Feb 17 | Maginot Line |
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| Feb 18 | Wallace Stegner |
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| Feb 20 | Ask not for whom the bell tolls... |
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| Feb 23 | W.E.B. DuBois |
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| Feb 24 | Spay & unchartered waters |
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| Feb 25 | Elevate & escalate |
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| Feb 26 | Obscenity, indecency, & profanity |
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| Feb 27 | Word for the Wise After Dark, and a few final words |
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| January 2009 |
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| Jan 1 | Humbled |
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| Jan 2 | Wishy-washy |
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| Jan 5 | Twelfth Night |
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| Jan 6 | Carl Sandburg |
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| Jan 7 | Sprachgefuhl & karmadharaya |
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| Jan 8 | Empathy |
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| Jan 9 | Dagwood |
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| Jan 12 | Edmund Burke & Jack London |
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| Jan 13 | Strive |
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| Jan 14 | Caesarean |
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| Jan 15 | Mores |
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| Jan 16 | Growler |
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| Jan 19 | Poe Toaster & poetaster |
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| Jan 20 | Manner & manor |
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| Jan 21 | Never mind |
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| Jan 22 | George Gordon Byron |
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| Jan 23 | Upper crust |
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| Jan 26 | Aboriginal words |
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| Jan 27 | Patron & patronize |
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| Jan 28 | Good & evil |
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| Jan 29 | Thomas Paine |
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| Jan 30 | Pedigree |
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| December 2008 |
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| Dec 1 | Prevalent |
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| Dec 2 | Joseph McCarthy & terms of 1954 |
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| Dec 3 | Swine & pork |
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| Dec 4 | Thomas Carlyle |
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| Dec 5 | Begging the question |
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| Dec 8 | Eli Whitney & the cotton gin |
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| Dec 9 | John Milton |
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| Dec 10 | Lethal |
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| Dec 11 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
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| Dec 12 | Staunch |
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| Dec 15 | Bill of Rights & immunity |
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| Dec 16 | Two notable women |
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| Dec 17 | Carbon 14, radioactive & half-life |
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| Dec 18 | Shibboleth |
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| Dec 19 | Outfit & upstart |
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| Dec 22 | Gorilla |
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| Dec 23 | Bank |
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| Dec 24 | Holy Mackerel |
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| Dec 25 | A few adjectives of joy |
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| Dec 26 | Smart |
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| Dec 29 | Rasputin |
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| Dec 30 | Mare's nest, maverick, and white man's burden |
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| Dec 31 | Simon Wiesenthal & justice |
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| November 2008 |
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| Nov 3 | Terms for mistakes & consequences |
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| Nov 4 | Voting |
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| Nov 5 | Guy |
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| Nov 6 | What's good for the goose is good for the gander |
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| Nov 7 | Happy medium or happy median, & compromise |
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| Nov 10 | Indulgence |
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| Nov 11 | Kurt Vonnegut |
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| Nov 12 | Segue |
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| Nov 13 | Jekyll and Hyde |
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| Nov 14 | Self-conceit |
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| Nov 17 | Homemade Bread Day |
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| Nov 18 | Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre |
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| Nov 19 | Historic & historical |
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| Nov 20 | Pulchritude & whited sepulcher |
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| Nov 21 | Voltaire |
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| Nov 24 | Dale Carnegie |
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| Nov 25 | Andrew Carnegie |
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| Nov 26 | Down the rabbit hole |
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| Nov 27 | Turkey terms |
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| Nov 28 | Gap, notch & pass |
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| October 2008 |
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| Oct 1 | Chinese terms from Chinese food |
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| Oct 2 | Goose & gossamer |
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| Oct 3 | Lonesome & lonely |
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| Oct 6 | Dictionaries and the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| Oct 7 | Duplicative & duplicate |
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| Oct 8 | Carpool |
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| Oct 9 | Atonement |
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| Oct 10 | Double & redouble |
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| Oct 13 | Words of 1925 |
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| Oct 14 | Peregrinate |
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| Oct 15 | Patriotism & nationalism |
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| Oct 16 | Dictionary Day |
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| Oct 17 | Tide |
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| Oct 20 | Watergate & terms of 1973 |
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| Oct 21 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Oct 22 | Ululate, keen & hanker |
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| Oct 23 | Can & may |
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| Oct 24 | Pork barrel, back scratching, & log rolling |
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| Oct 27 | Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Oct 28 | Colossus |
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| Oct 29 | Terms for prisons and jails |
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| Oct 30 | Taxonomy |
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| Oct 31 | Graveyard & cemetery |
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| September 2008 |
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| Sep 1 | Tarzan yell |
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| Sep 2 | Flammable |
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| Sep 3 | Tabloid |
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| Sep 4 | Atlanta |
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| Sep 5 | Stuck-up |
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| Sep 8 | International Literacy Day |
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| Sep 9 | Mao Ze Dong & the long march |
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| Sep 10 | Crisp & crispy |
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| Sep 11 | O. Henry |
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| Sep 12 | Regardless, irregardless, & nevertheless |
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| Sep 15 | Terms from American Spanish |
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| Sep 16 | Torquemada & inquisition |
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| Sep 17 | Lazy Susan & dumbwaiter |
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| Sep 18 | Let alone |
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| Sep 19 | Entomology & etymology |
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| Sep 22 | Palooka |
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| Sep 23 | Terms for "stupid people" |
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| Sep 24 | Punctuation terms |
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| Sep 25 | Peruse |
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| Sep 26 | English |
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| Sep 29 | Enrico Fermi |
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| Sep 30 | Boilerplate |
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| August 2008 |
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| Aug 1 | In fact & indeed |
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| Aug 4 | Picnic |
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| Aug 5 | Astrology & astronomy |
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| Aug 6 | Streak & rationalize |
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| Aug 7 | Terms of 1959 |
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| Aug 8 | Muggy |
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| Aug 11 | President pro tempore |
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| Aug 12 | Terms & the general lexicon |
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| Aug 13 | Hitchcockian & MacGuffin |
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| Aug 14 | Chockfull, chock, & chockablock |
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| Aug 15 | Whippersnapper |
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| Aug 18 | Terms of retail |
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| Aug 19 | Philo T. Farnsworth & Bart Simpson |
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| Aug 20 | Mariner |
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| Aug 21 | Hearsay & res getae |
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| Aug 22 | Toe the line & jury-rig |
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| Aug 25 | Some words about human kindness |
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| Aug 26 | Sex & gender |
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| Aug 27 | Cattycorner |
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| Aug 28 | Roger Tory Peterson |
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| Aug 29 | Kidnap |
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| July 2008 |
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| Jul 1 | Dominion |
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| Jul 2 | Smithereens |
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| Jul 3 | Hysteria & effete |
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| Jul 4 | Terms born in America |
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| Jul 7 | Wiki |
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| Jul 8 | Glass houses & glass ceiling |
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| Jul 9 | Cure & curiosity |
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| Jul 10 | Marcel Proust |
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| Jul 11 | Martinet |
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| Jul 14 | Woody Guthrie |
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| Jul 15 | Terms born in baby talk |
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| Jul 16 | Ida B. Wells |
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| Jul 17 | Iron & irony |
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| Jul 18 | Piece |
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| Jul 22 | Gregor Mendel |
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| Jul 23 | Private eye |
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| Jul 24 | Cobwebs & spider webs |
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| Jul 25 | Near miss |
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| Jul 28 | Bonus Army |
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| Jul 29 | Spendthrift |
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| Jul 30 | Tinker's dam |
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| Jul 31 | Shadow |
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| June 2008 |
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| Jun 2 | Saint Elmo's fire |
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| Jun 3 | Standing out from the herd |
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| Jun 4 | National Tailors' Day |
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| Jun 5 | John Maynard Keynes |
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| Jun 6 | Afraid |
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| Jun 9 | Schadenfreude revisited |
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| Jun 10 | Terms of 1652 |
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| Jun 11 | Ben Jonson |
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| Jun 12 | Perfect and more perfect |
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| Jun 13 | Could & couldn't care less |
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| Jun 16 | Abraham Lincoln |
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| Jun 17 | E-mail queries |
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| Jun 18 | Hawks, doves, & the War of 1812 |
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| Jun 19 | Chatty |
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| Jun 20 | Master of ceremonies & toast |
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| Jun 23 | An improved type-writer |
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| Jun 24 | Rhubarb |
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| Jun 25 | Mildred Gillars |
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| Jun 26 | Anarchists |
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| Jun 27 | Upset & factoid |
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| Jun 30 | They |
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| May 2008 |
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| May 1 | Terms of the ear |
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| May 2 | Robert's Rules & rules of apostrophes |
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| May 5 | Nellie |
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| May 6 | Sigmund Freud |
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| May 7 | Freebie & swag |
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| May 8 | Nonchalance |
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| May 9 | Where books are burned |
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| May 12 | Roadometer & odometer |
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| May 13 | The exactly right word |
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| May 14 | Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit |
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| May 15 | Nylon |
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| May 16 | Rhubarb |
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| May 19 | Terms of decapitation |
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| May 20 | Terms of aviation history |
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| May 21 | The flip side |
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| May 22 | Arthur Conan Doyle |
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| May 23 | Corduroy & corduroy road |
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| May 26 | Terms of the dead |
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| May 27 | Shamus |
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| May 28 | Swan song |
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| May 29 | Much |
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| May 30 | Gilding the lily |
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| April 2008 |
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| Apr 1 | James Boswell |
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| Apr 2 | Emile Zola |
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| Apr 3 | Space |
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| Apr 4 | The @ |
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| Apr 7 | Walter Winchell |
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| Apr 8 | Superior |
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| Apr 9 | Daffynitions |
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| Apr 10 | Quixotic |
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| Apr 11 | The Civil Rights Act, & terms of 1968 |
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| Apr 14 | Samuel Mudd |
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| Apr 15 | Henry James |
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| Apr 16 | Bunting |
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| Apr 17 | Thornton Wilder |
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| Apr 18 | Digerati & digeratus |
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| Apr 21 | Charlotte Bronte |
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| Apr 22 | Chemists Celebrate Earth Day |
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| Apr 23 | The death dates of two great writers |
|---|
| Apr 24 | Cygnet & swan |
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| Apr 25 | Serendipity |
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| Apr 28 | Circadian & nycthemeral |
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| Apr 29 | World Dance Day |
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| Apr 30 | Fray & affray |
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