| 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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| 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 |
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| 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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| March 2008 |
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| Mar 3 | National Read Across America Day |
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| Mar 4 | National Procrastination Week |
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| Mar 5 | Cat & kitten |
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| Mar 6 | Gesundheit |
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| Mar 7 | Middle Name Pride Day |
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| Mar 10 | Dozing, drowsing, napping, & snoozing |
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| Mar 11 | The influenza outbreak |
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| Mar 12 | Drawers |
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| Mar 13 | Drop a dime |
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| Mar 14 | Pi Day |
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| Mar 17 | Knowledge |
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| Mar 18 | Rudolph Diesel |
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| Mar 19 | Saint Joseph's Day |
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| Mar 20 | Lorem ipsum |
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| Mar 21 | Stumping |
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| Mar 24 | Curate's egg |
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| Mar 25 | Pecan Day |
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| Mar 26 | Journeyman |
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| Mar 27 | Wallflower |
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| Mar 28 | Hair |
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| Mar 31 | Coy |
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| February 2008 |
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| Feb 1 | Prepositions |
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| Feb 4 | Rosa Parks & boycott |
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| Feb 5 | Shrove & tide |
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| Feb 6 | Succeed & accede |
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| Feb 7 | Biddy |
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| Feb 8 | Play |
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| Feb 11 | White Shirt Day |
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| Feb 12 | Union Day in Myanmar |
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| Feb 13 | Fat chance & slim chance |
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| Feb 14 | Terms of love |
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| Feb 15 | Bells and whistles |
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| Feb 18 | Words of American presidents |
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| Feb 19 | Internment |
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| Feb 20 | On the ball |
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| Feb 21 | Scintillating |
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| Feb 22 | Brand-new |
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| Feb 25 | Electrocute |
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| Feb 26 | Terms from The Communist Manifesto |
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| Feb 27 | Terms of hatred |
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| Feb 28 | Orient & orientate |
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| Feb 29 | Leap Year Day |
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| January 2008 |
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| Jan 1 | Year of the Potato |
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| Jan 2 | Sea change |
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| Jan 3 | Turpitude |
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| Jan 4 | Isaac Newton & Louis Braille |
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| Jan 7 | Dialect & vernacular |
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| Jan 8 | Pendulum |
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| Jan 9 | Simone de Beauvoir |
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| Jan 10 | Raining cats and dogs |
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| Jan 11 | Marmalade, jelly, & butter |
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| Jan 14 | Clean Off Your Desk |
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| Jan 15 | Goodman Aiskowitz |
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| Jan 16 | Hamming it up |
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| Jan 17 | Merger,consolidation, & amalgamation |
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| Jan 18 | Peter Mark Roget |
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| Jan 21 | John Moses Browning |
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| Jan 22 | Andre-Marie Ampere |
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| Jan 23 | Hamstrung |
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| Jan 24 | National Compliment Day |
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| Jan 25 | Vetting |
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| Jan 28 | Vim, vigor, & vinegar |
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| Jan 29 | W.C. Fields |
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| Jan 30 | Conviction |
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| Jan 31 | Finished & done |
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| December 2007 |
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| Dec 3 | Joseph Conrad & Dr. Christiaan Barnard |
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| Dec 4 | National Dice Day |
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| Dec 5 | Okay |
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| Dec 6 | Spur |
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| Dec 7 | Raining cats and dogs |
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| Dec 10 | Melvil Dewey |
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| Dec 11 | Lulu |
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| Dec 12 | Gustave Flaubert |
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| Dec 13 | Perlocutionary & illocutionary |
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| Dec 14 | Ornery |
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| Dec 17 | Airshed & Watershed |
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| Dec 18 | Migrants, immigrants, & emigrants |
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| Dec 19 | Zip & cipher |
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| Dec 20 | Soccer & football |
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| Dec 21 | James Parkinson |
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| Dec 24 | James Prescott Joule |
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| Dec 25 | Yule & jolly |
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| Dec 26 | Mao Zedong |
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| Dec 27 | Silly |
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| Dec 28 | Behoove & fraught |
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| Dec 31 | Last-ditch |
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| November 2007 |
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| Nov 1 | Subject |
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| Nov 2 | Notion |
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| Nov 5 | Sedition |
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| Nov 6 | Half-mast & run it up the flagpole |
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| Nov 7 | The Republican elephant |
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| Nov 8 | Libel and slander |
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| Nov 9 | Zebu |
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| Nov 12 | Children's Book Week |
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| Nov 13 | World Kindness Day |
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| Nov 14 | Restive & restful |
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| Nov 15 | I Love to Write Day |
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| Nov 16 | Learn Chinese Month |
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| Nov 19 | Lincoln's Gettysburg Address |
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| Nov 20 | Edwin Powell Hubble |
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| Nov 21 | Especially |
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| Nov 22 | You're welcome |
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| Nov 23 | Dis & mis |
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| Nov 26 | John Harvard |
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| Nov 27 | Note & notate |
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| Nov 28 | William Blake |
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| Nov 29 | Charles Thomson |
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| Nov 30 | Fast |
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| 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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| Oct 15 | Wilhelm Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Oct 16 | Noah Webster |
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| Oct 17 | Glamour |
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| Oct 18 | Grammar, morphology, & syntax |
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| Oct 19 | A fish rots from the head down |
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| Oct 22 | Terms from the opera |
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| Oct 23 | National Mole Day |
|---|
| Oct 24 | Hoi polloi |
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| Oct 25 | Thomas Babington Macaulay |
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| Oct 26 | Functionality & function |
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| Oct 29 | Financial terms of 1929 & 1930 |
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| Oct 30 | Emily Post |
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| Oct 31 | Haunt & boo |
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| September 2007 |
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| Sep 3 | Use & Utilize |
|---|
| 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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