Friday, August 18, 2023

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


 
 
 

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