This week's theme: words borrowed from Spanish. cay (kay, kee) noun
A small low island of coral, sand, etc.; key. [From Spanish cayo (shoal).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=cay -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Its terrain ranges from a myriad offshore islands, coral reefs and cays, white and black sand beaches, savannah, alpine meadows to the largest area of pristine rainforest outside the Amazon basin." Neil Hanson; Travel: Papua New Guinea; The Guardian (London); Mar 23, 2002. Sponsors' messages: Do you love words? Then play Spinword, the all new exciting word game! Play free online now at http://www.joyboost.com/game/spinword?k=awad1 Subscribe to any of the French, German, Italian or Spanish Champs-Elysees Audio Magazines and get an extra issue free: http://web.champs-elysees.com/wsmith8 ............................................................................ The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. -Peter De Vries, editor, novelist (1910-1993) Looking for word/quotation archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Unsubscribe, change address, etc: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/cay.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/cay.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/cay.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
