Monday, May 23, 2005
A new word
Quincunx. It's one of those words that you always knew must exist (as in, there must be a name for those three dots that you put in a sentence when you want people to know you're leaving something out...which word is 'ellipsis', by the way) but never bothered to look up. Probably because you didn't care enough to find out.
But NOW, thanks to me and Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day, you don't have to care or even look it up...unless you are really compulsive. In which case, knock yourself out.
Quincunx • \KWIN-kunks\ • noun: an arrangement of five things in a square or rectangle with one at each corner and one in the middle. (Blog note: as in, the pattern on the five side of a die. You'll wonder how you ever got along without knowing this.)
I used to have a toy on which you had to press different sequences of buttons to get the lights to light up in a specific pattern. I loved that toy. Man, no wonder I'm such a geek.
'night.
But NOW, thanks to me and Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day, you don't have to care or even look it up...unless you are really compulsive. In which case, knock yourself out.
Quincunx • \KWIN-kunks\ • noun: an arrangement of five things in a square or rectangle with one at each corner and one in the middle. (Blog note: as in, the pattern on the five side of a die. You'll wonder how you ever got along without knowing this.)
I used to have a toy on which you had to press different sequences of buttons to get the lights to light up in a specific pattern. I loved that toy. Man, no wonder I'm such a geek.
'night.
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