Addition for today...

Word of the Day for Monday April 14, 2003: tmesis TMEE-sis, noun: In grammar and rhetoric, the separation of the parts of a compound word, now generally done for humorous effect; for example, "what place soever" instead of "whatsoever place," or "abso-bloody-lutely."

Examples of tmesis:

If on the first, how heinous e'er it be, To win thy after-love I pardon thee. --Shakespeare, Richard II

His income-tax return, he remarked, was the "most rigged-up marole" he'd ever seen. --Frederic Packard

In two words, im possible. --Samuel Goldwyn

Tmesis is from Greek tmesis, "a cutting," from temnein, "to cut."

See - you learn something new everyday. Use "tmesis" in a sentence later on this evening, while you're nursing a bourbon chocolate and dining on roasted garlic and caviar. Sure, you'll smell nasty-ass, but you'll look in-tell-i-gent and be abso-fuckin-lutely brilliant by the end of the game. Ciao!

2003-04-14 | 5:06 p.m.

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