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Thread #125317   Message #2774542
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
26-Nov-09 - 08:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'ex cathedra' - it means...........
Subject: RE: BS: 'ex cathedra' - it means...........
Top of the page in the Oxford English Dictionary-

When looking up a word in the Oxford English Dictionary, my eye often is caught by the word at the top of the page; usually something I have never heard, and forget soon afterward.

Opening in the A's and turning a few pages:
aggravidization
aggregable
agrass
agraunte
aimfully
alighten
allantois
allanturic
allodial

and by the time one gets to Z....