Mackle

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/1/07, Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com> wrote:

>  http://wordsmith.org/words/mackle.html
>
> Surely Pynchon must have used this word in ATD!

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Date: Mon Jul 30 00:01:05 EDT 2007
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--diplopia
X-Bonus: Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not
readily suspect them in others. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld
(1613-1680)

What do you call a town full of twins? DupliCity! And what do you ask twin
witches? "Which witch is which?" Well, there'll be no witches in an Ohio
town named Twinsburg next week, but if you happen to be there, you'll think
you're suffering from an acute case of diplopia.

Every August, thousands of twins -- from infants to octogenarians -- converge
there to celebrate Twins Days Festival http://www.twinsdays.org. To mark the
occasion, this week we'll feature words with double connections.

diplopia (di-PLO-pee-uh) noun

   Double vision.

[From Greek diplo- (double) + -opia (vision).]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=diplopia

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "Life was a blur. Or so he thought. The thing
   Was, he'd been diagnosed with a small-time
   Astigmatism. Why think otherwise?
   But when the doctor told him, 'Read the chart,'
   And he replied, 'Which one?' even the smart,
   Young nurse said, 'Uh oh.'"
   Greg Williamson; Binocular Diplopia; The Kenyon Review (Gambier, Ohio);
   Winter 2001.

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Date: Tue Jul 31 00:01:05 EDT 2007
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--didymous
X-Bonus: God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into
the nest. -Swedish proverb

This week's theme: words with double connections.

didymous (DID-uh-muhs) adjective

   Occurring in pairs; twin.

[From Greek didymos (twin). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dwo- (two)
that also gave us dual, double, dubious, doubt, diploma, twin, and between.]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "Shakespeare portrays the didymous functionaries as if they were
   a unit comprised of two parts."
   Peter Usher; Hamlet's Universe; Aventine Press; 2006.

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