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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--prithee This week's theme: words formed by contraction. prithee (PRITH-ee) interjection Please (used to express a request). [Contraction of (I) pray thee.] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Probably it is because I am by profession a storyteller that I cannot resist a good tale, and it makes no matter if I end up telling it as a piece of fiction or as what calls itself truth. Just do not, I prithee, confuse me with a clam." The Specialist Said; The Sunday Independent (Dublin, Ireland); May 28, 2006. X-Bonus We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. -George Steiner, professor and writer (b. 1929)

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