| October 2007 |
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| Oct 1 | Cyberspace |
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| Oct 2 | Terms of salt |
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| Oct 3 | Purebred, mongrel, mutt, & cur |
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| Oct 4 | Pictographs & hieroglyphs |
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| Oct 5 | World Teachers' Day |
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| Oct 8 | Celebrate, solemnize, observe, & commemorate |
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| Oct 9 | Philately |
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| Oct 10 | Tuxedo |
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| Oct 11 | Pease porridge |
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| Oct 12 | Folk etymology |
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| September 2007 |
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| Sep 3 | Use & Utilize |
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| Sep 4 | Twenty-three skiddoo |
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| Sep 5 | Rack |
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| Sep 6 | Powwow |
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| Sep 7 | Mum |
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| Sep 10 | Stephen Jay Gould & punctuated equilibrium |
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| Sep 11 | Mumblety-peg |
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| Sep 12 | Homely |
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| Sep 13 | El Dorado |
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| Sep 14 | Birth control |
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| Sep 17 | Terms of the American Civil War |
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| Sep 18 | Wisdom & cunning |
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| Sep 19 | Henry Peter Brougham |
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| Sep 20 | Dialectal terms |
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| Sep 21 | Afghans, blankets, and quilts |
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| Sep 24 | National Punctuation Day |
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| Sep 25 | Snopes |
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| Sep 26 | Sarcophagus & sarcasm |
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| Sep 27 | World Tourism Day |
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| Sep 28 | Renegade & desperado |
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| August 2007 |
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| Aug 1 | August |
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| Aug 2 | Fire & fiery |
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| Aug 3 | Simon-pure |
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| Aug 6 | Go missing |
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| Aug 7 | Tenterhooks & tenderhooks |
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| Aug 8 | Videre |
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| Aug 9 | Fish or cut bait |
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| Aug 10 | Unconditional surrender |
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| Aug 13 | Incunabulum |
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| Aug 14 | Terms of 1908 & 1935 |
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| Aug 15 | Dogma |
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| Aug 16 | Perturb, agitate, fluster, & discombobulate |
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| Aug 17 | Mosquito |
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| Aug 20 | Plutonium |
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| Aug 21 | Torts |
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| Aug 22 | Ray Bradbury |
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| Aug 23 | Terrible & terrific |
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| Aug 24 | Rhyme or reason |
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| Aug 27 | Born on this date in 1871 |
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| Aug 28 | Exponent & logarithm |
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| Aug 29 | Willy-nilly |
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| Aug 30 | Blue-sky |
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| Aug 31 | Mother Tongue Day |
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| July 2007 |
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| Jul 2 | Half vs Halves |
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| Jul 3 | Dog terms |
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| Jul 4 | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| Jul 5 | The typical vocabulary |
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| Jul 6 | Foster |
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| Jul 9 | Naked |
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| Jul 10 | Baseball's Sad Lexicon |
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| Jul 11 | Dichotic |
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| Jul 12 | Orange |
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| Jul 13 | Cotton |
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| Jul 16 | Literati & digerati |
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| Jul 17 | Erle Stanley Gardner & gunsel |
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| Jul 18 | Fifth column |
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| Jul 19 | Kilter & fettle |
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| Jul 20 | Riot Act |
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| Jul 23 | Stupor & stupid |
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| Jul 24 | Simon Bolivar |
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| Jul 25 | Temperature |
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| Jul 26 | Absolve, exculpate, & vindicate |
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| Jul 27 | Dodge |
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| Jul 30 | Conspicuous consumption |
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| Jul 31 | Ishmael & Ahab |
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| June 2007 |
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| Jun 1 | Grist and grits |
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| Jun 4 | King George III |
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| Jun 5 | Collocate |
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| Jun 6 | D-Day |
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| Jun 7 | Quiz |
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| Jun 8 | Retention and detention |
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| Jun 11 | Idol |
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| Jun 12 | Peanut gallery |
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| Jun 13 | Roller coaster |
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| Jun 14 | A favorite word puzzle |
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| Jun 15 | The year of the first fatal aviation accident |
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| Jun 18 | Impressment |
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| Jun 19 | Blaise Pascal |
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| Jun 20 | A leg up |
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| Jun 21 | Solstice & summer |
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| Jun 22 | Troop |
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| Jun 25 | English words with a Slavic origin |
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| Jun 26 | Fungo |
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| Jun 27 | Terms of 1844 |
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| Jun 28 | Vain |
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| Jun 29 | Ponere offspring |
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| May 2007 |
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| May 1 | Terms of the United Kingdom |
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| May 2 | Calling the question |
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| May 3 | Making bones |
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| May 4 | I ching |
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| May 7 | Beaufort's scale |
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| May 8 | Antoine Laurent Lavoisier & National Teacher Day |
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| May 9 | Circadian rhythm |
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| May 10 | Room and board |
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| May 11 | Coarse, vulgar, and obscene |
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| May 14 | Variolation & vaccination |
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| May 15 | Stewardess |
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| May 16 | Bluestocking |
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| May 17 | Apology & apologia |
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| May 18 | Terms of museology |
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| May 21 | Bloodletting |
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| May 22 | The dog that didn't bark |
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| May 23 | Carl Linnaeus |
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| May 24 | Fodder |
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| May 25 | Fodder and grist |
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| May 28 | zoologist, glaciologist, geologist, and ichthyologist |
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| May 29 | Two heroes of American history |
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| May 30 | The proof is in the pudding |
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| May 31 | Blue moon |
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| April 2007 |
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| Apr 2 | Casanova, Romeo, Don Juan, and Lothario |
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| Apr 3 | Knickerbocker |
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| Apr 4 | Big Brother |
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| Apr 5 | Slug |
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| Apr 6 | Quoit |
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| Apr 9 | Winston Churchill |
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| Apr 10 | Maven |
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| Apr 11 | Licorice |
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| Apr 12 | Sent to Coventry |
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| Apr 13 | Alfred Mosher Butts |
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| Apr 16 | Asteroid |
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| Apr 17 | Stress in language |
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| Apr 18 | Compatriot, patriot & patrioteer |
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| Apr 19 | Antimacassar |
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| Apr 20 | Nugation |
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| Apr 23 | Petard |
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| Apr 24 | Netiquette and emoticon |
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| Apr 25 | Hibernate and Hibernia |
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| Apr 26 | Words of 1944 |
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| Apr 27 | Cockpit |
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| Apr 30 | Words of 1967 |
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| March 2007 |
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| Mar 1 | Ghost writers |
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| Mar 2 | Dr. Seuss |
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| Mar 5 | Pompons and pompoms |
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| Mar 6 | Procrastination |
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| Mar 7 | Words of the senses |
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| Mar 8 | Labels applied to women |
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| Mar 9 | Virulent |
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| Mar 12 | Boycott |
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| Mar 13 | Play by ear |
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| Mar 14 | Origin unknown |
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| Mar 15 | Newfangled |
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| Mar 16 | James Madison |
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| Mar 19 | Presume, assume, presuppose, and postulate |
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| Mar 20 | Amateurs and professionals |
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| Mar 21 | Exotic (to us, at least) terms |
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| Mar 22 | Marcel Marceau |
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| Mar 23 | Polka dot |
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| Mar 26 | Soviet cosmonauts and citizenship |
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| Mar 27 | Dungaree, denim, and jeans |
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| Mar 28 | Clown |
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| Mar 29 | A flow of words |
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| Mar 30 | Blue devil |
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| February 2007 |
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| Feb 1 | Kith and kin |
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| Feb 2 | Shadow |
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| Feb 5 | Punic |
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| Feb 6 | Reggae |
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| Feb 7 | Sir Thomas More & Sinclair Lewis |
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| Feb 8 | Mews |
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| Feb 9 | Factoid |
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| Feb 12 | Charles Darwin |
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| Feb 13 | Vanishing point & perspective |
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| Feb 14 | Words of love |
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| Feb 15 | Recant |
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| Feb 16 | Noodge and nudge |
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| Feb 19 | Redress |
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| Feb 20 | Orbit |
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| Feb 21 | Carminative |
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| Feb 22 | Braggadocio & ignoramus |
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| Feb 23 | Samuel Pepys |
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| Feb 26 | Communication terms of 1934 |
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| Feb 27 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Feb 28 | Aspect ratio of business stationery |
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| January 2007 |
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| Jan 1 | Words from the Open Dictionary |
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| Jan 2 | Isaac Asimov |
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| Jan 3 | Less |
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| Jan 4 | Antedating |
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| Jan 5 | Cowlick |
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| Jan 8 | Monopoly |
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| Jan 9 | Words of 1793 |
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| Jan 10 | Words that mean nothing |
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| Jan 11 | William James |
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| Jan 12 | Zip |
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| Jan 15 | Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior |
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| Jan 16 | Taboo |
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| Jan 17 | Wanton |
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| Jan 18 | Phenomena |
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| Jan 19 | Edgar Allen Poe |
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| Jan 22 | Business stationery |
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| Jan 23 | Mare's nest |
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| Jan 24 | Edith Wharton and National Compliment Day |
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| Jan 25 | Virginia Woolf |
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| Jan 26 | Shortening |
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| Jan 29 | Freethinkers' Day |
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| Jan 30 | A day of violence |
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| Jan 31 | Thirty pieces of silver and potter's field |
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| December 2006 |
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| Dec 1 | Art |
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| Dec 4 | Gigman, babbit, and booboisie |
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| Dec 5 | Irrational exuberance |
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| Dec 6 | Sabotage and piggyback |
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| Dec 7 | Pearl Harbor |
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| Dec 8 | Tow |
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| Dec 11 | Renunciation and abdication |
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| Dec 12 | Popinjay |
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| Dec 13 | Rue the day |
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| Dec 14 | Nostradamus |
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| Dec 15 | Terms of 1791 |
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| Dec 18 | Pandemonium |
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| Dec 19 | Carter Godwin Woodson |
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| Dec 20 | Zuzu’s petals |
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| Dec 21 | Philadelphia lawyer |
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| Dec 22 | Bit and byte |
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| Dec 25 | Christmas |
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| Dec 26 | Boxing |
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| Dec 27 | Chopsticks |
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| Dec 28 | Poor Richard |
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| Dec 29 | Dock |
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| November 2006 |
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| Nov 1 | Preposterous, absurd, and ludicrous |
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| Nov 2 | Epitaphs |
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| Nov 3 | Impoverished |
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| Nov 6 | Sax and Sousa |
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| Nov 7 | Nonce words |
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| Nov 8 | Sweet, fly, and solid |
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| Nov 9 | Integrity |
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| Nov 10 | Pass out |
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| Nov 13 | Nounce words |
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| Nov 14 | Impressionism |
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| Nov 15 | Than and from |
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| Nov 16 | Cloud nine |
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| Nov 17 | John Peter Zenger |
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| Nov 20 | Sheik |
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| Nov 21 | Hippopotamus |
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| Nov 22 | Charles Darwin |
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| Nov 23 | Thanks |
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| Nov 24 | Content |
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| Nov 27 | Less |
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| Nov 28 | Revenge |
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| Nov 29 | Army and navy |
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| Nov 30 | Cockaigne |
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