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A.Word.A.Day--juggernaut juggernaut (JUG-uhr-not) noun 1. Anything requiring blind sacrifice. 2. A massive relentless force, person, institution, etc. that crushes everything in its path. [From Hindi jagannath (a title of Krishna, a Hindu god), from Sanskrit jagannath, from jagat (world) + nath (lord). A procession of Lord Jagannath takes place each year at Puri (India). Devotees pull a huge cart carrying the deity. Some have been accidentally crushed under the wheels (or are said to have thrown themselves under them).] "Sergio Cragnotti, the Lazio chairman, had spent some £200 million to assemble the juggernaut squad that won the title in the 1999-2000 season." Lazio Become a Shining Example; The Times (London, UK); Oct 19, 2003. "While Apple Computer has finally made its long-anticipated move to license Macintosh technology to computer manufacturers, this is only the beginning of its strategy to challenge the Microsoft juggernaut." IT Digest; Jan 19, 1995. This week's theme: words derived from Sanskrit. X-Bonus In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty. -Imbesi's Law of Conservation of Filth

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