Word of the Day for Monday, May 28, 2007

enunciate \ee-NUN-see-ayt; ih-\, transitive verb:

1. To utter articulately; to pronounce.
2. To state or set forth precisely or systematically.
3. To announce; to proclaim; to declare.
4. To utter words or syllables articulately.

Some Trivia

Who coined the phrase “the shot heard round the world”?

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his poem “The Concord Hymn,” about the April 19, 1775, Battle of Lexington and Concord. The poem was written to the tune of a Protestant hymn, “Old Hundredth,” for the 1837 dedication of the battle monument at North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The famous line is: “Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.”

Which U.S. state is the most earthquake prone?

Alaska. It has as many as 4,000 earthquakes a year, and experiences a magnitude 7 quake almost every year and a magnitude 8 on an average of once every 14 years. In 1964, the Anchorage area was hit with a 9.2 quake—the largest U.S. quake on record.

Which Greek gods were blind?

Themis, goddess of justice.