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I checked and Today's Word was not hijacked from wwftd. Tsuwm can't find them all.
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...and I don't know how I've managed to miss it. It certainly qualifies.
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So, for those of us not suscribed to AWAD, what is this mystery word?
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NOT subscribed to AWAD? blaspheme! 
spatchcock (SPACH-kok) verb tr.
1. To insert or interpose something in a forced or awkward manner.
2. To split open a fowl for grilling.
noun
A fowl prepared in this manner.
[Of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of spitchcock, a similar way of
cooking an eel. Popular interpretation as a shortening of "dispatch cock"
is etymologically not confirmed.]
"A spatchcocked version of flexibility was adopted when the EU's 15
governments held a constitutional conference in 1996-97, and produced the
Amsterdam treaty that came into force last year. They agreed that groups
of countries should be free to do their own thing--so long as no other EU
country objected, which rather negated the point."
European Union: Order a la Carte?, The Economist (London), Apr 22, 2000.
"The author manages to spatchcock together Democratic despair at
approaching elections, Truman's low political clout, his posing for a
portrait, his listening to a baseball game in the 1946 World Series and
his being the only man in formal attire at a reception for Supreme Court
justices."
Kathleen Burk, Truman (book review), History Today (London), Feb 1, 1994.
formerly known as etaoin...
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>NOT subscribed to AWAD? blaspheme!
I was, but when I changed email addresses, I couldn't be bothered resubscribing. call it antapathy, if you will
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Dear sjm: If you scroll way,way,way down to foot of page, click on "Today's Word".
As if I could tell you anything about AWADtalk. Incidentally, my very best wishes to you.
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Thanks for the tip, Dr. Bill, I shall be able to keep up wih these threads now. I hope your Solstice was all you wished it to be.
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