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Word of the Day for Monday, July 19, 2010philogyny \fi-LOJ-uh-nee\, noun: Love of or liking for women (opposite of misogyny.) We will, therefore, draw a curtain over this scene, from that philogyny which is in us, and proceed to matters which, instead of dishonouring the human species, will greatly raise and ennoble it. To me, it is immaterial if misogyny or philogyny or whatever was in the writer's mind. It's the fact of censorship and, what is truly more infuriating, at the instigation of a cleric, that alarms me. Philogyny combines two Greek roots: philo, "love," and gyn, "woman." | |||||||||
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  If you gain wisdom from staring at your belly button, it's "omphaloskepsis." Plus, "innie" & "outie" definedSome of us get squeamish at the sight of them. Some of us shoot studs into them. Some of us forget they are even there. No two are exactly alike - even for identical twins. The belly button is the scar on the abdomen that is caused when the umbilical cord, through which the mammalian fetus receives... | |||||||||
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