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A.Word.A.Day--pundit pundit (PUN-dit) noun also pandit 1. A learned person. 2. A person who offers commentary or judgments as an expert on a certain topic. [From Hindi pandit, from Sanskrit pandita (learned).] "According to a top psychologist, the brain starts working the moment you're born and never stops until you become a TV football pundit. I understand our psychologist actually reached his conclusion, having studied Mercy Green, the most famous pundit in the history of punditry. Mercy Green is not the real name; it's an anagram I'm using so as not to get on the wrong side of him." Grant Us Mercy; Daily Record (Glasgow, UK); Oct 22, 2003. "This is not entirely unheard of among political columnists, but the typical Washington pundit is stupefyingly uninformed about economics, a field in which Krugman is exceedingly well informed." Russell Baker; The Awful Truth; The New York Review of Books; Nov 6, 2003. This week's theme: words derived from Sanskrit. X-Bonus If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. -John Cleese, comic actor (1939- )

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