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Word of the Day for Saturday, July 3, 2010vespertine \VES-per-tin\, adjective: 1. Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the evening. To my own ear, I sound hyperpoetic, and I don't mean to exaggerate these vespertine moods; I think that this restlessness that I am describing was really quite ordinary. So on we journey'd, through the evening sky / Gazing intent, far onward as our eyes, / With level view, could stretch against the bright / Vespertine ray: and lo ! by slow degrees / Gathering, a fog made towards us, dark as night. Vespertine derives from Latin vespertīnus, "evening." | |||||||||
  It's called a "hot dog" for a gross and silly reason. Plus, "hamburger" history This July 4th weekend, as you hear the calefaction of comestibles, consider the names of those items you are about to eat. Brace yourself for the short and disputed history of the "hot dog." According to the Oxford English Dictionary, people commonly believed that the thin sausages contained dog meat. This particularly gruesome coinage started on American college campuses... | |||||||||
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