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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--zanjero This week's theme: professions of the past. zanjero (zahn-HAY-ro) noun One who is in charge of water distribution. [From Spanish zanja (ditch, irrigation canal).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Future water engineer William Mulholland got his start as a zanjero." Julie Sheer; Los Angeles Aqueduct; Los Angeles Times; Feb 18, 1996. X-Bonus Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. -Albert Camus, writer and philosopher (1913-1960)

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