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Jul 16, 2010 This week's theme Miscellaneous words This week's words paean mephitic equipoise risible folderol This week's comments AWADmail 420 Next week's theme Words that look one part of speech but are other License Our Material Not just in email, our daily words appear in various media, from newspapers to digital picture frames. You too can license our material for your newspaper, magazine, website, newsletter, LCD display, etc. See details. Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg folderol PRONUNCIATION: (FOL-duh-rol) MEANING: noun: 1. Nonsense; foolishness. 2. A trifle; gewgaw. ETYMOLOGY: From a nonsense refrain in some old songs. The word is also spelled as falderal. USAGE: "Canonisation is a slow business in the Catholic church: all that folderol about miracles and devil's advocates." John Sutherland; What's Wrong With Teaching Rap in Schools?; The Guardian (London, UK); Jul 5, 2004. Explore "folderol" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: "Faith" is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see -- / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency. -Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)

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