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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--cancrine This week's theme: less-known synonyms of everyday words. cancrine (KANG-krin) adjective 1. Reading the same backwards as forwards, palindromic. For example, "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama." (letter cancrine) "So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so!" (word cancrine) 2. Crab-like. [From Latin cancr- (stem of cancer) cancer + -ine.] J.S. Bach's Crab Canon is an example of cancrine music. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "At Hingham Church in Norfolk there is a curious cancrine inscription over the font." R. Hart; Ecclesiastical Records; 1846. (from the OED) X-Bonus When we have the courage to speak out -- to break our silence -- we inspire the rest of the "moderates" in our communities to speak up and voice their views. -Sharon Schuster

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