Fwd: A.Word.A.Day--chevron

[Doug Millison]

A timely definition.

Hope it doesn't mean our friendly local representative of Big Oil -- 
the Chevron refinery 2 miles down the road from the house here -- 
won't start belching extra toxins today.  Utopian thinking, I 
suppose. And what if I and the rest of the people here in the SF Bay 
Area who are tired of Chevron pumping poison into the air, went over 
there and made them stop it.  How undemocratic that would be.

>Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 00:01:38 -0400
>From: Wordsmith <wsmith at wordsmith.org>
>Subject: A.Word.A.Day--chevron
>
>chevron (SHEV-ruhn) noun
>
>    A pattern in the shape of a V or an inverted V.
>
>[Middle English, from Old French chevron, rafter, from Vulgar Latin caprion
>(stem of caprio) from Latin caper, goat.]
>
>WordPix: http://wordsmith.org/words/chevron.gif
>
>    "To increase employee morale, the company president decided to award
>    a cheap plastic chevron to those putting in more than 70 hours per week."
>
>WordPix, words that do their own show-and-tell, have evoked an enthusiastic
>response. Here is another week of these words that remind us that a picture
>is worth a thousand words.                                           -Anu
>
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>poet (1848-1922)
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>Pronunciation:
>http://wordsmith.org/words/chevron.wav
>http://wordsmith.org/words/chevron.ram

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