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A.Word.A.Day--telamon Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio telamon (TEL-uh-mon) noun, plural telamones (-MOH-neez) A figure of a man used as a supporting pillar. [Latin telamon, from Greek, bearer.] Atlas is another word for figure of a man used as a column. -Anu "Even though Dickens never pulled down the temple, he went further than Thackeray in mocking the pillars of a repressive society--Podsnap a telamon and Mrs. General a caryatid." Rodney Stenning Edgecombe, Middle-class Erasures: The Decreations of Mrs. General and Mr. Podsnap, Studies in the Novel, Fall 1999. This week's theme: feminine and masculine forms of words. X-Bonus Pray, v. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), [The Devil's Dictionary, 1906]

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