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Word For The Day, Thursday, May 11, 2006 - anarthrous
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| May 11, 2006
| secret garden
Posted on 05/11/2006 5:40:42 AM PDT by secret garden
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".
an·ar·throus (n-ärth-rs)adjective
Linguistics. Occurring without an article. Used especially of Greek nouns.
Zoology. Lacking joints.
Example sentence:
Novelist Dan Brown staggered through the formulaic splendour of his opening sentence. I've discussed his anarthrous kickoff with a couple of novelists and they say things like, "It doesn't sound like a novel," and I usually reply that that's the point. If The Da Vinci Code were just a novel, it would just be crummy writing.
Etymology:
From Greek anarthros, not articulated : an-, without.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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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
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TOPICS: Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: goodtimes; greatoldies
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Rise and shine!
To: secret garden
I have an anarthrous leg, which is why I don't run anymore... and miss it.
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posted on
05/11/2006 5:42:04 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: secret garden; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; NeoCaveman; ...
Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!
Here is my example with WFTD.
Mark Steyn inspires many to do thoughtful, creative things. Today he inspired me to use anarthrous as our WFTD.
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posted on
05/11/2006 5:45:56 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: secret garden
Lovely sub, SG, picked a great WFTD ; )
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posted on
05/11/2006 5:49:15 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
To: VRWCmember
Studly vast is, indeed, #3.
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posted on
05/11/2006 5:55:19 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
Is Ann Arthrous the older sister of Bea Arthrous? And did she ever appear as a guest star on Maude or The Golden Girls?
To: secret garden
The GOP Senates disastrous
They'd rather court Dems than listen t'us.
The RINOs just whine
...and without a spine
I guess you could say they're anarthrous!
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:00:04 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: secret garden
I was driving through Kentucky after The Derby and wanted to stop for a beer. I couldn't find a gin mill for miles, and then I realized that I had ventured into an anarthrous county--NO JOINTS!
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:00:46 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
To: Argh; secret garden; xsmommy; Miss Behave; bentfeather; Gabz
Well, when the pitcher damaged his throwing arm, it required anarthrowous surgery to fix his elbow.
But, then again, the democrats demand we equipment our military anarthrously, so they'ed be disarmed as well.
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:00:57 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: grey_whiskers; VRWCmember; TruthShallSetYouFree; secret garden
We aren't teating miss secret's word very seriously, are we?
(is she going to get up in arms about that?)
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:02:38 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: theDentist; secret garden
This is a disjointed topic, isn't it?
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:03:21 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: secret garden

"Knights of the Round Table" was anarthrous tale of olde England...
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:07:47 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Oh, Gawain....)
To: secret garden
Geez, sorry I pissed you off enough to remove me from your ping list. I wonder what I did?
< /obnoxious way of asking you to update your ping list to include me>
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:11:04 AM PDT
by
Toby06
(Make illegal immigration illegal!)
To: Toby06; secret garden
Well, whatever it was you did, I must have done it too..........cause I didn't get called to class by the teach either :(
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:16:19 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(Smokers are the beta version)
To: secret garden
The anarthrous ramblings from the Iranian Mullahs roughly take the form:
"We make bomb. We use bomb. We wipe Israel off map."
Our arthrous reply should take the form:
"We've had the bomb for over sixty years. We've used it on
our enemy in World War II. If necessary, we will use it on the
future sheet of glass formerly known as Iran."
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:18:59 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
To: Gabz
Let's go have a smoke and wait for the bell to ring.
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:19:21 AM PDT
by
Toby06
(Make illegal immigration illegal!)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
I was driving through Kentucky after The Derby and wanted to stop for a beer. I couldn't find a gin mill for miles, and then I realized that I had ventured into an anarthrous county--NO JOINTS! DING DING DING DING DING!
No more calls, please.
We have a winner!
Full Disclosure: This is also why the left hates conservatives, but tolerates libertarians ;-)
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:20:24 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: secret garden
I am having anarthrous day. Maybe it would improve if I ate a brownie!
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:21:44 AM PDT
by
Dutchgirl
(.Jeg er en dansker (I am a Dane.))
To: Robert A. Cook, PE; xsmommy
We aren't teating miss secret's word very seriously, are we? I take teats very seriously as xs has observed from time to time.
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