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    Thursday, February 15, 2007

    Planetary Conjunction

    Syzygy is, I think, a really cool and under-publicized word.

    I was able to use it today not only in a sentence but a short essay. It was my entry for a contest I hope to win.

    I won't know for a month and I'm not telling any more that that, because it's a members-only contest, so it either won't do you any good, or if you're a member too, I don't want you stealing my cool word.

    Wikepedia has a page discussing the etymology of syzygy.

    1 comment:

    Anonymous said...

    Hah! I actually named a dog Syzygy. No one could get it straight and he ended up being called Ziggy by everyone but me.