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Provided by the compucert tintinnabulation \tin-tih-nab-yuh-LAY-shuhn\, noun:
- A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.
Tintinnabulation derives from Latin tintinnabulum "a bell," from tintinnare from tinnire, "to jingle."
- Other People's Money
Man, this cellie bill is killin me, I gotta get some OPM.
Trivia
What character on a popular, long-running TV sitcom was never seen—except when she had a pie thrown in her face?
- Vera, the wife of Norm Peterson on Cheers. She was regularly mentioned on the show, sometimes heard, and fleetingly seen only once—when waitress Diane Chambers accidentally threw a pie in her face. Vera was played by Bernadette Birkette, who is the offscreen wife of George Wendt/Norm Peterson.
- Tiffany and Co.: upscale jewelry retailer was founded as a stationery and fancy goods store (1837)
- The New York Times: newspaper then known as The New-York Daily Times publishes its first issue (1851)
- 2001 anthrax attacks: began, a week after 9/11, with a mailing from Trenton, New Jersey, to various media sources in New York City (2001)
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): lexicographer who compiled the first great English dictionary, Dictionary of the English Language
- James Marsden (35): actor, Enchanted, 27 Dresses; also, actors Greta Garbo (1905-1990), Rossano Brazzi (1916-1994), Fred Willard (69), James Gandolfini (47), Holly Robinson Peete (44) and Jada Pinkett Smith (37)
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