בתשובה לשי מור, 28/04/02 11:50
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speaking of which, a very unusually coincidence struck me this morning.

The Word of the Day for April 28 is:

kakistocracy \kak-uh-STAH-kruh-see\ (noun)
: government by the worst people

Example sentence:
A political exile forced to emigrate from her homeland,
Dalia remains convinced that the government of her native
country is a corrupt kakistocracy.

Did you know?
A reader of _Time_ magazine was once so surprised to find
this rare and unusual word in the pages of that publication
that he decided the occasion warranted a letter to the editor.
"Where in the name of Semanticus, did your writer come up with
that word 'kakistocracy,"' he wrote in a letter dated February
6, 1956. "Is it a government of parrots?" (A "kaka" is a New
Zealand parrot.) Good guess, but "kakistocracy" actually
originated as a combination of the Greek "kakistos" (superlative
of "kakos," which means "bad") and the English suffix "-cracy,"
meaning "form of government."


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