Thursday, February 13, 2003

While waiting to order my mocha this morning I discovered that Bibo's Coffee has free wireless internet now.  Woohoo!
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A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that a mentally ill inmate can be forced to take anti-psychotic drugs that could make him sane enough to be executed. VOA News
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Word of the Day

solecism (SOL-i-siz-ehm, SOA-li-) noun

  1. A nonstandard usage or grammatical construction.
  2. A violation of etiquette.
  3. An impropriety, a mistake, or an incongruity.

Latin soloecismus, from Greek soloikismos, from soloikizein, to speak incorrectly, from soloikos, speaking incorrectly after Soloi (Soli), an Athenian colony in Cilicia where a dialect regarded as substandard was spoken. [A.Word.A.Day]


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