This week's theme: yours to discover. dilli or dilly (DIL-ee) noun
Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. [Shortening of delightful or delicious.] -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "You're the most impossible man I ever met. And I've met some dillies." Raymond Chandler; Playback; Ballantine Books; 1958. Erratum: The Jefferson quotation featured in yesterday's AWAD is unsubstantiated. Thanks to alert reader Robert Whittaker for catching it. Sponsored by: Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?code=qv9&ad=aw Ever wonder why we aren't just happy, we're happy as a clam? Derivation, a fascinating game about word & phrase origins. A great gift! http://entspire.com ........................................................................... Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything -- anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in. -Sam Harris, author (1967- ) Our privacy policy: AWAD mailing list addresses are never sold, rented, leased, traded, swapped, exchanged, or bartered. We hate junk mail. Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/dilli.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/dilli.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/dilli.html
