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Sep 1, 2004 This week's theme Words that are also names This week's words alexia julienne tommyrot merry-andrew garth Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg tommyrot tommyrot (TOM-ee-rot) noun Nonsense; foolishness. [From English dialectal tommy (fool), shortening of Thomas + English rot.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "Name Game In this age of loony leaders And blatant tommyrot, Do you feel you can distinguish Hussein and who is not?" Erik Barnouw; Pepper...and Salt; The Wall Street Journal (New York); Mar 7, 1991. "Burnham is frankly cynical about the public enquiry. 'That's a lot of tommyrot,' he says, with a broad, crafty smile." Peter Popham; Terminal Damage; Independent (London, UK); May 4, 1996. This week's theme: words that are also names. X-Bonus Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. -Bill Stern, sports announcer (1907-1971)

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