Thursday, July 11, 2013

drawl \drawl\, verb:

1. to say or speak in a slow manner, usually prolonging the vowels.

noun:

1. an act or utterance of a person who drawls.

Drawl entered English in the late-1500s and is likely from the East Frisian draulen meaning "to linger" or "delay." It is thought to be related to the word draw.

homemade word

• Those words invented at home, and used in the family but don't have a meaning outside of the family or friendship group

Tom: Sorry I didn't understand that, what did you say?

David: Oh, sorry, it was a homemade word.

Trivia

When it comes to fish, what is unique about the Anableps anableps—other than its name?

• The answer is in its more commonly used name, the four-eyed fish. Anableps anableps actually has only two eyes, but the pupils of both are divided horizontally so that the fish, when swimming along the water’s surface, can search below for food while simultaneously watching above for predators.
  

History

• Alexander Hamilton: the former secretary of the treasury was fatally wounded in a pistol duel with former vice-president Aaron Burr; Hamilton died the next day (1804)
• Niagara Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois and other African-Americans united to call for an end to racial discrimination (1905)
• Skylab: after six years in space, the space station reentered Earth's atmosphere (1979)
• Mumbai train bombings: seven blasts set off in pressure cookers took more than 200 lives (2006)

Birthdays

• Thomas Bowdler 1754
• John Quincy Adams (U.S.) 1767
• John Wanamaker 1838
• E.B. White 1899
• Harry Von Zell 1906
• Yul Brynner 1915
• Gene Evans 1924
• Brett Somers 1927
• Theodore Harold Maiman 1927
• Paul Harney 1929
• Tab Hunter 1931
• Giorgio Armani 1934
• Bobby Rice 1944
• Beverly Todd 1946
• Jeff Hanna (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) 1947 - Musician
• Bonnie Pointer (Pointer Sisters) 1951 - Singer
• Stephen Lang 1952
• Leon Spinks 1953
• Mindy Sterling 1953
• Sela Ward 1956
• Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) 1957 - Musician
• Michael Rose (Black Uhuru) 1957 - Musician
• Mark Lester 1958
• Suzanne Vega 1959 - Musician
• Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi) 1960 - Musician
• Lisa Rinna 1963
• Debbie Dunning 1966
• Michael Rosenbaum 1972
• Lil' Kim 1975