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Jul 24, 2014 This week's theme Toponyms This week's words bohemian damson Gretna Green whitehall Photo: CdL Creative A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg Whitehall PRONUNCIATION: (HWYT-hawl) MEANING: noun: The British government or the British Civil Service. ETYMOLOGY: From Whitehall, a street in London, on which many government offices are located. The street gets its name from the Palace of Whitehall. Earliest documented use: 1827. USAGE: "Armed with these clues, Blitz called a Whitehall source, who said that the official was being paid by the Foreign Office." John Cassidy; The David Kelly Affair; The New Yorker; Dec 8, 2003. See more usage examples of whitehall in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today. -Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)

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