The word of the day for March 21, 2007 is “syzygy” — Pronunciation: 'si-z&-jE, noun : the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system.
Jeanie is a new reader of WOTD. She gave me this word, claiming that someone used it in a Scrabble® game. She must play with people like my husband, who will invent words just to get points. If you call him on the word, he will say, ”Look it up.” He is that lucky that 90 times out of a hundred there is a word spelled like that. I say “lucky” because he normally can’t spell worth beans. As I have probably mentioned we don’t play Scrabble® anymore—just too many opportunities to quarrel.
Since Scrabble® is out, we play Chinese checkers—which as far as I’m concerned is little better than tic-tac-toe—or dominoes. Nevertheless, I rarely win against Lloyd at either one. It has gotten to the point that unless he wins by a large margin, he doesn’t feel that he has won at all. As an alternative, maybe I’ll invite him to set up my telescope at the little park behind Campus High School to view the moon and whatever else is hanging in the sky. We’ve gone sky-watching before to see comets and meteor showers.
The quote for today is from Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only, 04-18-2006:
You can call it the 'Perfect Moment' when the universe aligns and the music in your head actually matches the music outside and all is well.
;^) Jan
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1 comment:
I once played scrabble Jan....not now. Bryan and I squabbled over the words many a time. We did the same with checkers and chess. We played checkers in bed one night and I got so cross at loosing, sespecially because he was gloating,I kneed the board and the pieces shot into the air in my majesterial 'hissy fit'. Lol! Thanks for the full explanation for syzygy. I have saved it for future perusal. My brain can't hold that may facts all at once now that I am getting old....woe is me. Lol!
Jeanie
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