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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--divers This week's theme: words that appear to be misspellings. divers (DY-vuhrz) adjective Various; several. [From Latin diversus, from divertere (to turn aside), from di- (away, apart) + vertere (to turn). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wer- (to turn or bend) that is also the source of words such as wring, weird, writhe, worth, revert, and universe.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. Note: This word can sneak through spellcheckers in another garb: as a plural noun. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "Did he alone represent France in this mysterious association, evidently composed of individuals of divers nationalities?" Jules Verne; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea; 1870. X-Bonus Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. -Stephen Leacock, economist and humorist (1869-1944)

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