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Feb 22, 2007 This week's theme Porcine words to mark the Chinese new year This week's words pignus epigamic pigsney epigeal epigone Many ways to read AWAD o Email o Web o Twitter o RSS feed o On your own website Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg epigeal epigeal (ep-i-JEE-uhl) adjective Living close to the ground, as certain plants. [From Greek epigeios (on the earth), from epi (upon) + ge (earth).] "This nation must not let Denzil Douglas and his incompetent, all-good-for-themselves ministers bring us, a once successful and progressive people, to an epigeal existence." Charles Warne; Energy-saving Bulbs or A Nation-saving Government; Democrat (St. Kitts and Nevis); Jan 27, 2007. X-Bonus Profits, like sausages and laws, are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. -Gary Hector, author and journalist (b. 1951)

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