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Jan 1, 2009
Happy New Year 2009!May your new year be filled with kindness! This week's theme Uncommon adverbs This week's words seriatim pell-mell withal imprimis shilly-shally Got a website? Free content for your site words, quotations & more 
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with Anu Gargimprimis
PRONUNCIATION:
(im-PRY-mis, -PREE-)
MEANING:
adverb: In the first place.
ETYMOLOGY:
From contraction of Latin phrase in primis (among the first), from in (among)
and primus (first). The word was originally used to introduce the first of a
number of articles in a list, such as a will, inventory, etc.
USAGE:
"So you see, imprimis the Queen of Scots cannot commit treason against me
because she is not my subject."Patricia Finney; Unicorn's Blood; Picador; 1998. See more usage examples of imprimis in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)
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