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A.Word.A.Day--florilegium Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio florilegium (flor-uh-LEE-jee-uhm, FLOR-) noun, plural florilegia A collection of literary pieces; anthology. [Neo-Latin florilegium, equivalent to Latin flori- + leg(ere) to gather + -ium, on the model of spicilegium gleaning; a calque of Greek anthologia, anthology] "One of the most telltale of these is the ever-growing popularity of the digest, the epitome, the florilegium, the anthology." Green, Peter, The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation (book reviews), The New Republic, 19 Feb 1996. This week's theme: words about words. X-Bonus As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

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