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A.Word.A.Day--soi-disant Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio soi-disant (swa-dee-ZAN) adjective Self-styled; so-called. [French : soi, oneself + disant, saying.] "Some audiences jeered, but many acclaimed the laconic eloquence of a work that voiced, better than soi-disant existentialist theater, the despair and the moral perplexity besetting postwar Europe." Brown, Frederick, He couldn't go on. He went on (writer Samuel Beckett), The New Republic, 30 Dec 1996. This week's theme: foreignisms. X-Bonus Hitch your wagon to a star. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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