This week's theme: words that are homophones of everyday words. butte (byoot) noun
An isolated hill rising abruptly from the surrounding area, having steep sides and a flat top. [From French butte (mound).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=butte -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "The barren buttes surrounding this small ranching town offered scant places for coyotes to hide as hunters converged." Matthew Brown; Coyote Hunts Draw Criticism; Associated Press; Jan 21, 2007 Sponsored by: Perfect your French, German, Italian or Spanish with Champs-Elysees audio magazines, the final step to fluency! http://ads.champs-elysees.com/wsmith5 Namix: What's in a name? Smart naming solutions for products, services, and businesses: http://namix.com ............................................................................ For what are stars but asterisks. To point a human life? -Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886) Send your comments to (words AT wordsmith.org). To unsubscribe, update address send gift subscription, etc., visit http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/butte.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/butte.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/butte.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
