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Feb 5, 2010 This week's theme Eponyms This week's words Annie Oakley John Bull Maginot line daltonism methuselah This week's comments AWADmail 397 Next week's theme Verbs Make a gift that ... keeps on giving, all year long: A gift subscription of AWAD or give the gift of books Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg Methuselah PRONUNCIATION: (meh-THOO-zuh-luh) MEANING: noun: 1. An extremely old man. 2. An oversized wine bottle holding approx. 6 liters. ETYMOLOGY: After biblical figure Methuselah, who was said to have lived 969 years. USAGE: "Five restaurant years would be about equivalent to 30 human years, so Bambino's, which has been around since 1983, is a veritable Methuselah among eateries." A.C. Stevens; Why Cook Tonight?; The Boston Herald; Feb 11, 2001. "Meet Frank Ahern, the Methuselah of Seattle high-school coaches, a revered urban legend in his second half-century of helping city youth." Craig Smith; A Coach For The Ages; The Seattle Times; Feb 27, 2000. Explore "Methuselah" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

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