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Oct 7, 2011 This week's theme There is a word for it This week's words hebephrenia retrodiction onomasticon anosognosia keening Keening for Cú Chulainn This week's comments AWADmail 484 Next week's theme Negative words Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg keening PRONUNCIATION: (KEE-ning) MEANING: noun: A wailing lament for the dead. ETYMOLOGY: From Irish caoineadh (lament). Earliest documented use: 1876. USAGE: "Of all the closures of independent stores that have left hundreds of British high streets a book-free wilderness, none has given rise to more celebrity keening than the imminent demise of The Travel Bookshop." Boyd Tonkin; Crimes Behind Closed Doors; The Independent (London, UK); Sep 9, 2011. Explore "keening" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. -Franz Kafka, novelist (1883-1924)

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