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Born May 16
Elizabeth [Palmer] Peabody
educator, author, publisher
1804-1894
This Day in History
1763 - Samuel Johnson, British writer and lexicographer, met his future biographer and traveling companion James Boswell for the first time in Tom Davie's bookshop in London.
Word of the day
neologism
Pronunciation: /nee-ol-uh-jiz-uhm/
noun: 1. a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
2. the introduction or use of new words or new senses of existing words.
3. a new doctrine, esp. a new interpretation of sacred writings.
4. Psychiatry. a new word, often consisting of a combination of other words, that is understood only by the speaker: occurring most often in the speech of schizophrenics.
Origin: 1790-1800; from Fr. néologisme, from neo- + logos "word." Meaning "new word or expression."
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