Posted on 08/09/2007 6:08:53 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".
levity \LEV-uh-tee\, noun
1. Lightness of manner or speech, especially when inappropriate or excessive; frivolity.
2. Lack of steadiness or constancy; changeableness.
Example sentences:
They sat there in their formal bargeman's rig . . . looking solemn: they were part of a ceremony, and levity, winking, whispering, smiling, had no place in it.
-- Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days
I must say that if the doctor was indulging in levity at my expense, it is a levity I find in the worst possible taste.
-- Alfred Alcorn, Murder in the Museum of Man
Etymology:
Levity is from Latin levitas, from levis, "light."
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
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
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
OMG!!! how cool
I knew it was coming, I just didn’t know when
It was great, has Jax seen it yet?
And Gabz, according to some on FR, you may now be considered a "published author" lol
LOL! now you’ve finally MADE IT!! ; )
No, I want to try and see if I can find a hard copy of the paper. That’s a bit difficult, as they have stopped home deliveries of it in this area.
Hey, and it’s a Maryland, not Delaware paper (smirk)
BTW, this is the same newspaper I blasted last week about a story they ran about blueberries....in INDIANA. That article ran the day before we all went and picked blueberries right here on DelMarVa.
I can’t believe, with the number of papers and reporters they have around here they didn’t bother to find a local angle to a USA Today article..........but they are all Gannett papers, what should I expect?
-our loco rag is a gannet as well....not much substance there.
And for my next trick, I will now levitate this African elephant.
The "need" to have iPod-compatible clothing has added someSame here....I stopped subscribing years ago!
I hope with the ability to levitate folks onto cranes and other things, we'll raise the six men up from coal hole in Ohio.
I don’t subscribe, I just read them on line :)
I will look for a copy of today’s paper, though — since Jax name is in it.
Tioga — I did let her read the online version - she started bouncing off the walls!
:))
Dagnabbit, they pulled the “beaver attacks” thread...
Before any of the cocquettes had a chance to strut their beavers on the thread?
LOL!!!
But I really do need to find a copy of today’s issue.
You know, in the good old days they’d have left that thread alone.
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