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This week's theme Words related to royalty. This week's words magna carta royal we morganatic king's ransom queen regnant Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Got a blog? Free content for your blog words, quotations & more Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg king's ransom PRONUNCIATION: (kingz RAN-suhm) MEANING: noun: A very large sum of money. ETYMOLOGY: From the reference to the large sum required to secure the release of a king from captivity. USAGE: "Its nickname, CrackBerry, says it all. [A study] found that a third of BlackBerry users show signs of addiction 'similar to alcoholics'. Many companies would give a king's ransom for such customer dependency." Are You Addicted To Your BlackBerry?; Forbes (New York); Apr 3, 2008. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: 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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