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A.Word.A.Day--herculean Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio Herculean (hur-kyuh-LEE-uhn, hur-KYOO-lee-) adjective 1. Often herculean. Of unusual size, power, or difficulty. 2. Of or relating to Hercules. Resembling Hercules. [From Hercules, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, a hero of extraordinary strength who won immortality by performing 12 labors demanded by Hera.] "If it hopes to match the Intel-Windows standard, Apple's engineering challenge is to eliminate the ROMs without replacing them with the Unix crutch. But this herculean task would be difficult to accomplish by the 1996 target for platform-compatible computers, sources said." Howard, Stephen; Hall, Mark, Shrink-wrapped OS to be option on clones, MacWEEK, 14 Nov 1994. This week's theme: words from Greek mythology. X-Bonus The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward. -Arthur Koestler

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