From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V11 #136 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Friday, September 18 2009 Volume 11 : Number 136 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] r.i.p [Ari ] [idealcopy] OT: Fw: ab ovo: M-W's Word of the Day [Andrew Westmeyer Subject: [idealcopy] r.i.p http://new.music.yahoo.com/peter-paul-mary/news/mary-travers-of-peter-paul-and-mary-dead-at-72--61994102 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:28:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Westmeyer Subject: [idealcopy] OT: Fw: ab ovo: M-W's Word of the Day Today's "word of the day" has a Wire connection... B A - --- On Thu, 9/17/09, word@m-w.com wrote: From: word@m-w.com Subject: ab ovo: M-W's Word of the Day Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 1:35 AM If this message doesn't display properly, open in a web browser. Merriam-Webster OnLineB B UnabridgedB B Learnerbs DictionaryB B Word CentralB B EncyclopC&dia Britannica B B B B B B B B Merriam-Websterbs Word of the Day September 17 B ab ovo B \ab-OH-voh\ B adverb B Meaning : from the beginning B Example Sentence The documentary presented the history of the city ab ovo, beginning with its inception as a frontier trading post in the 1800s and running through the present. B B B B B B Taking the SAT? Britannica TestPrep can raise your score-guaranteed! B B B B B B Did you know? "Ab ovo usque ad mala." That phrase translates as "from the egg to the apples," and it was penned by the Roman poet Horace. He was alluding to the Roman tradition of starting a meal with eggs and finishing it with apples. Horace also applied "ab ovo" in an account of the Trojan War that begins with the mythical egg of Leda from which Helen (whose beauty sparked the war) was born. In both cases, Horace used "ab ovo" in its literal sense, "from the egg," but by the 16th century Sir Philip Sidney had adapted it to its modern English sense, "from the beginning": "If [the dramatic poets] wil represent an history, they must not (as Horace saith) beginne Ab ouo: but they must come to the principall poynt of that one action." B *Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence. B Sponsored Links B B Subscription: B b" B Subscribe to Word of the Day b" B View Archives of previous words B Company Info: Merriam-Webster, Inc. 47 Federal Street P.O. Box 281 Springfield, MA 01102 Web site: Merriam-Webster.com Privacy Policy B) 2009 by Merriam-Webster, Incorporated B B B B B B B B B B Follow Merriam-Webster on Twitter! Editor at Large Peter Sokolowski offers daily observations on new words and language. B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B Merriam-Webster OnLineB B UnabridgedB B Learnerbs DictionaryB B Word CentralB B EncyclopC&dia Britannica If you do not wish to receive further issues, please unsubscribe. ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V11 #136 ********************************