A fun page on The Booke of Fayces is 'Grandiloquent Word of the Day'. Every now and then a word appears that I actually know, and use! The daily word a few weeks ago was 'linguaphile' - one who loves words. Sums many of up to a T. This morning's word is 'Athanasia', a quality or state of deathlessness, or immortality. At the last school where I worked before retirement one of the students, a girl from a Greek background, was called 'Athanasia'. Those of an unkind bent called her 'Euthanasia'......
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