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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--greek calends This week's theme: words related to calendar. Greek calends (greek KAL-undz) noun, also Greek kalends A time that doesn't exist. [From the fact that calends exist in the Roman calendar.] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Let's hope your wife is on time, so the judge doesn't reschedule your divorce for the Greek calends." Antonio Lobo Antunes; The Inquisitors' Manual; Grove Press; 2004. X-Bonus The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther." -Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (1770-1827)

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