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Jan 7, 2010 This week's theme Covering the extremities This week's words cothurnal gauntlet buskin sock discalced May I make a link? Yes. You don't need anyone's permission to make a link to a site. Linking is what makes the Web work... more Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg sock PRONUNCIATION: (sawk) MEANING: noun: A light, low-heeled shoe worn by ancient Greek comic actors, and by extension a comedy. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin soccus (slipper). Compare with buskin. The term "sock and buskin" refers to the theatrical profession collectively. USAGE: "In both images, the face is obscured by a bulbous spherical helmet, bearing a triangle in one photograph, a star in the other, a sinister update to the sock and buskin masks of classical theatre." Works That Fizz With Unexpected Connections; The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland); Jul 27, 2007. Explore "sock" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. -Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)

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