Friday, August 18, 2023

mussitation, noun [muhs-i-tey-shuh n] 

1. muttering; mumbling; murmuring.
2. silent movement of the lips in simulation of the movements made in audible speech.

ORIGIN: Mussitation, a very rare noun, derives from Late Latin mussitātiō (stem mussitātiōn-) “suppression of the voice, silence.” The sense of “moving the lips in silence but as if speaking” is a modern medical sense dating from the late 19th century. Late Latin mussitātiō derives from the Latin verb mussitāre “to speak in a low tone, grumble, take no notice of, bear silently.” Mussitation entered English in the mid-17th century. 

Slave to the gram 

• When one is willing to go to extreme heights in order to obtain an instagram photo, possibly risking injury.

She only ski-dived for the instagram , she's a slave to the gram

History

• Phobos: Martian moon named for the Greek god of fear was discovered by Asaph Hall (1877)
• 19th Amendment: was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it; this gave US women the right to vote (1920)
• Lolita: controversial Vladimir Nabokov novel, about a middle-aged man who becomes obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, was published (1955)
• James Meredith: became the first African American to graduate from "Ole Miss" (1963)

Birthdays

• Antonio Salieri 1750
  Merriwether Lewis 1774

  
• Max Factor 1904
• Caspar Weinberger 1917
• Shelley Winters 1920
• Rosalynn Carter 1927
• Grant Williams 1930
• Roman Polanski 1933 director, convicted child rapist 
• Gail Fisher 1935
• Rafer Johnson 1935
• Robert Redford 1937
• Johnny Preston 1939
• Christopher Jones 1941
• Martin Mull 1943
• Carl Wayne (The Move) 1944
• Nona Hendryx 1945
• Dennis Elliot (Foreigner) 1950
• Patrick Swayze 1952
• Ron Strykert (Men at Work) 1957
• Madeleine Stowe 1958
• Zac Maloy (The Nixons) 1968
• Everlast 1969
• Edward Norton 1969
• Christian Slater 1969
• Malcolm-Jamal Warner 1970
• Mike Boorem 1988