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James Veverka (headbands@webtv.net)
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Hey check out the origins of this word and the note on anthology. ......jim

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The Word of the Day for June 3 is:

florilegium \flore-uh-LEEJ-um\ (noun)

: a volume of writings : anthology

Example sentence:

         One prominent critic hailed Jake's third poetry collection as
         "an elegant florilegium of old favorites and sophisticated
         new works."

Did you know?
         Editors who compile florilegia can be thought of as gathering
         a bouquet of sweet literary blossoms -- literally. We're not
         just getting sappy. It's just that English speakers picked up
         "florilegium" from a New Latin word that derives from the
         Latin "florilegus," which can be translated as "culling
         flowers." In fact initially, "florilegium" was applied to a
         collection of flowers, and later to books about flowers, but
         it wasn't long before it began to be used for (as the _Oxford
         English Dictionary_ puts it) "a collection of the flowers of
         literature." But "florilegium" isn't the only English
         collecting term with a floral heritage; its synonym
         "anthology" comes from the Greek word for "flower gathering."


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