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Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 20, 2010impedimenta \im-ped-uh-MEN-tuh\, noun: Baggage or other things that retard one's progress. With the ladies, therefore, matters soon assumed vivid and definite shape; they became clearly and irrefutably materialized; they stood stripped of all doubt and other impedimenta. Amid all the usual impedimenta of a life, he came upon an unexpected treasure."When I was going through my father's chest of drawers, I found a little book that turned out to be a diary of my mother," Rodriguez told The Times. Impedimenta relates to the Latin impedire, literally "to shackle one's feet." | |||||||||
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  Stop for a second — it's July 20th, but what do the "twen-" and "-ty" in twenty mean exactly? Think about what you take for granted. Do you ever wonder why "America" is named after Amerigo Vespucci? Why we call green green? The same goes for twenty. Twenty is the natural number sandwiched between nineteen and twenty-one. The word comes from the Old English twegen, which means "two," and the Old English suffix -tig, which means... | |||||||||
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