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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--carrageen This week's theme: toponyms coined after places in Ireland (map of our virtual tour). carrageen or carragheen (KAR-uh-geen) noun An edible seaweed, usually purplish, found on the Atlantic coast of Europe and North America. Also called Irish moss. Carrageen is the source of carrageenan, used as a thickener and emulsifier (to make sure a solid is evenly distributed in a liquid). [After Carrageen, near Waterford in southeast Ireland.] Carrageen pictures Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Melissa Katsoulis collects the school reports of famous writers. Who is this week's pupil? There is a petition going around this school requesting that cook supplement her carrageen moss pudding with the ripe wee noses of first-years, and we can only assume your son is at the bottom of it. This is a modest submission compared with his 'What I Did On My Holidays', a ridiculous confection seemingly designed to test the limits of our credulity. He should remember that there is a fine line between Juvenal and juvenile, and while the masters of Kilkenny are able to tell the difference, the world at large may not be. Answer: Jonathan Swift." Melissa Katsoulis; Swots and monsters; The Times (London, UK); Apr 14, 2007. X-Bonus Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well. -Peter Ustinov, actor, writer and director (1921-2004)

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