Dictionary.com Word of the Day for Thursday, February 8, 2007

Pyrrhic victory \PIR-ik\, noun:

• A victory achieved at great or excessive cost; a ruinous victory.

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February 08, 2007: I'm not gay seat
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• The empty seat in a movie theater that two males leave between them to show the rest of the audience that they are straight.

Bob: I went to a movie with John the other day but we left the I'm not gay seat, so no one thought it was weird.

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Word of the day:...........'la cuenta' [COOEHN-tah]
English translation:.......the bill
Synonym(s):................nota, (in shops: factura, recibo)

In the restaurant:

• ¿Nos trae la cuenta, por favor?
• Can you bring us the bill, please?

Daily Trivia:
What is the tallest masonry edifice in the world?

• The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. The marble-faced granite obelisk is 555 feet tall.