Posted on 04/09/2008 5:54:57 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
stygian • \STIJ-ee-un\ • adjective, (often capitalized)
1. of or relating to the river Styx
2. extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding *
Example sentence:
When the power went out in the building, the halls and stairwells were plunged into stygian darkness.
Did you know?
"Stygian" comes to us (by way of Latin "stygius" and Greek "stygios") from "Styx," the name of the principal river in Hades, the underworld of the dead in Greek mythology. This is the river over which Charon the boatman was said to ferry the spirits of the dead; the Greeks and Romans would place a coin in the mouth or hand of the deceased to serve as fare. It is also the river by which the gods swore their most binding oaths, according to the epics of Homer. English speakers have been using "stygian" to mean "of or relating to the river Styx" since the early 16th century. From there the meaning broadened to describe things that are as dark, dreary, and menacing as one might imagine Hades and the river Styx to be.
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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
Heck, I might have even had some of those on 8-track!
i never encountered an 8track player. i know xshub had one prior to my knowing him.
Good morning all.....
8 Tracks were great! How could you never have had one? You would be listening to your favorite song and then right in
Click clunk
the middle it would switch to the next track.
And probably worth a fortune!!!!
i didn’t own a car til i was out of law school! my dad offered to buy me a car if i remained in Pgh after graduation, but since i wanted to move to DC i did not get one. my bro had a sporty rust and brown colored maverick!
really? i always think of that kind of stuff as junk. My dad had 78 rpm classical music discs in the basement for years.
Is Tangy.
8 Tracks weren’t just for cars.
i love that little face!!
they weren’t? wow. i never knew. honestly, i don’t even recall friends having them. what years specifically were they in vogue?
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure ;)
Seriously, depending on the condition some of them, as well as those 78s, and 33 LPs can bring in a pretty penny.
We’ve got stacks and stacks of them. One of these days we plan on burning them to CD and then selling the whole lot of them.
I have that CD! Great song.
When sister #1 went to college in 1980, she had a stereo with turntable, 8 track and cassette.
Next year sister #2's stereo just had a cassette, no 8 track.
So some time in the early 80s 8 track died.
i love 80s radio! each day i rediscover something like that!
my parents had a stereo contained in a piece of furniture in the living room that played records. i did not go to college with a stereo, i was born a poor white child : )
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