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[GWL]: another great writer resource

Not only is the Botanical Site of the Day a great resource but so is this 
Word of the Day resource.
Here's Saturday's word of the day. Subscription information is on the 
bottom of the note. I plan on using today's word when we go out to dinner 
tonight but only after I've had a glass or three of wine.  Then I can blame 
my nyctalopia on alcohol consumption.

Doug

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The Word of the Day for October 27 is:
nyctalopia \nik-tuh-LOH-pee-uh\ (noun)

: night blindness

Example sentence:
George's nyctalopia gives him a tendency to walk into
furniture unless he turns on all the lights.

Did you know?
"Nyctalopia" comes to us from the Latin word "nyctalops,"
which means "suffering from night blindness." It is ultimately
derived from the Greek word "nyktalops," which was formed by
combining the word for "night" ("nyx") with the words for
"blind" and "eye" ("alaos" and "ops," respectively). English
speakers have been using "nyctalopia" to refer to reduced
vision in faint light or at night since the 17th century. We
added the somewhat more pedestrian "night blindness" to the
lexicon in the 18th century.
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Douglas Green,
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