Posted on 06/11/2013 5:08:47 AM PDT by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, June 11, 2013
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".
panopticon [pan-op-ti-kon]
-n
a building, as a prison, hospital, library, or the like, so arranged that all parts of the interior are visible from a single point.
[176070; pan- + Greek optikón sight, seeing (neuter of optikós; see optic)]
The folks from Pomerania make the west Prussians sound like libertines and adventurers-and they certainly did stay away from Germany-can’t blame them for that, though-prison is a great disincentive to return...
They sound a bit like the Amish and other similar groups who also speak a Germanic dialect-they are said to have left for religious reasons, too.
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