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Jul 12, 2011 This week's theme Professions that exist mainly as surnames This week's words chandler wainwright collier chamberlain granger Missed a word? Check the archives chronological alphabetical plaintext or search the site Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg wainwright PRONUNCIATION: (WAYN-ryt) MEANING: noun: One who builds or repairs wagons. ETYMOLOGY: From Old English waen/waegen (wagon) + wryhta/wyrhta (worker). Earliest documented use: around 1000. USAGE: "Macon engaged a wainwright to build one of the great wagons." Lily Lashley Price; Taste of Ashes; Trafford; 2010. Explore "wainwright" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920)

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