Sip of the Day - Windows 7: Navigation/Preview/Detail Pane
Titera's Tidbit: Tulip
When it was introduced to Europe from its Central Asian homeland, this bulb carried the name dulband, the Turkish pronounciation of the Persian word that gives us "turban", so called for its shape. Several European languages render the word as "tulipan", which shows the etymology more clearly.
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Sip of the Day - April 5, 2010
Sip of the Day - March 29, 2010
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Titera's Tidbit: Shrewd
A "shrewd" person, in modern parlance, knows his or her way around a problem and can think things through; the sense combines wisdom with cunning, with a hint of sneakiness. The Middle English original had decidedly negative connotations; a person who was schrewed was twisted, the schrew in question being the origin of both the modern words shrew and screw.
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Sip of the Day - March 22, 2010
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Titera's Tidbit: Speculate
An ancient Roman soldier might have been assigned to a specula, "a watchtower", to keep an eye on things. A Roman woman might have fixed her hair with the aid of a speculum, "a mirror". Our word "speculate" originally meant "to watch over", the sense of which transferred to mean something like "theorize", which event- ually gave rise to the sense of "take a calculated risk, one that you've thought through".
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Sip of the Day - March 15, 2010
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Titera's Tidbit: Hurricane
A "hurricane" is not so named because it hurries, although this kind of massive tripical storm can attain deadly speeds. Instead, the word, borrowed from the language of the Carib Indians, is originally the name of their storm god, Aracan, sometimes spelled Huirancan.
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Titera's Tidbit: Nome
The faraway point in Alaska owes its origin to a note on a British admiralty chart reading "? name", as in, "What is this place called?" When the chart was converted to a printed map, the draftsman rendered this as Cape Name, which the engraver mistakenly read as Cape Nome. "Nome" it has been ever since.
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Sip of the Day - March 1, 2010
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Titera's Tidbit: Buffet
A medieval household of any means contained a sideboard with a top that could be opened to store dishes and linens. This useful piece of furniture took its name from the Old French word bufet, which means "a slap", because of the slapping sound the top made when it was closed. The meal served atop the sideboard came to be called "buffet" too.
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Final: U.S. 37, Germany 30, Canada 26, and Norway 23
Super Sip Scenery - San Isabel National Forest, Colorado
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Sip of the Day - February 22, 2010
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Titera's Tidbit: Brinkmanship
Someone who stands on the edge of a cliff, a brink, is either very brave or very foolish. In 1956, American politician Adlai Stevenson coined the term to describe Secretary of State John Foster Dulles's discomforting habit of constantly threatening war with the Soviet Union.
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So Far: U. S. 24, Germany 21, Norway 14, and Russia 10
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Sip of the Day - February 19, 2010
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Titera's Tidbit: Brigade
Any Irish warrior worth his salt spoiled for a brig, "a fight", that allowed him to prove his bravery. The Celtic word somehow found its way into Italian, where it came to refer to a group of fighters, the meaning it retains today.
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So Far: US 18, Germany 11, Norway 8, & Canada 7
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Sip of the Day - February 8, 2010
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Titera's Tidbit: Slush Fund
In sailor slang back in the days of the tall masts, slush referred to the murky, fatty leftovers at the bottom of a soup pot, which made for good eating in times of hunger. The ship's cook would sell off portions of the slush he had hidden away during those lean times, giving rise to our term "slush fund", meaning a sum of money for which there is generally no accounting.
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Sip of the Day - February 1, 2010
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Titera's Tidbit: Okefenokee
This extensive swamp on the border of Georgia and Florida, home to Walt Kelly's beloved cartoon character Pogo Possum, takes its name from a Muskogee Indian phrase meaning "shaking water". The reference is to quicksand, which the swamp contains in abundance.
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Super Sip Scenery - Cottonwood Pass, San Isabel Forest
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