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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--menology This week's theme: words related to calendar. menology (mi-NOL-uh-jee) noun A calendar, especially one commemorating specific people. [From Modern Latin menologium, from Late Greek menologion, from meno- (month) + -logy (account). It's the same meno that appears in menopause.] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The state Department of Archives and History's 1994 calendar, available beginning this month, is the first in a series of menologies to honor Mississippi's writers." Jack Elliott Jr.; Mississippi Writers Calendar a Talent Roll Call: The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana); Nov 28, 1993. X-Bonus Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast. -Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor and writer (1909-2005)

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