tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-38439674378577417432008-03-05T22:42:00.001-05:002008-03-05T22:43:53.154-05:00<B>Word of the Day</B><br /><br /><a href="http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=mozclient&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;q=antipodean&amp;um=1&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi">antipodean</a> (adj)<br /><br />Opposite to or of another thing.<br /><br />"Then, indeed, does the tuckered sylph come out in fairy form and proceed with joy under cousinly escort to the exhausted old assembly-room, fourteen heavy miles off, which, during three hundred and sixty-four days and nights of every ordinary year, is a kind of <u>antipodean</u> lumber-room full of old chairs and tables upside down."<br />--Charles Dickens, <i>Bleak House</i><br /><br />Love Dickens, but he wrote as if he was being paid by the word. Maybe he was.MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com