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Word of the Day for Sunday, July 25, 2010don \DON\, verb: 1. To put on or dress in. noun: For some inexpensive 3-D fun on a sunny day, have your child don the special glasses included with Optrix 3-D Bubbles to see holographic stars, hearts, butterflies, or lightning bolts on the bubbles she blows. "Ay, ay, and the rector fancied, sitting teaching me Greek out of old wild Homer all weekday - and his girl slipping out and in - 'twould do to don the cassock of a Sunday and preach out of the pulpit against the world, the devil, and the flesh - then warn me against the sea - ha! Don is an early 14th Century contraction of "do on," as doff is a similar contraction of "do off." | |||||||||
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  If you pray and say "amen" at the end, what does it literally mean? It's the day of the week where many Americans gather in their respective houses of worship and repeat the same word: amen. But what does the word mean? And why do people say it? Amen is commonly used after a prayer, creed, or other formal statement. It is spoken to express solemn ratification or agreement. It means... | |||||||||
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