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Sep 15, 2010
This week's themeFabled lands This week's words camelot hades never-never land ivory tower la-la land 
Peter Pan in Never Never Land
Illustration from the book Peter and Wendy, 1911 Artist: Francis Donkin Bedford
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with Anu Gargnever-never land
PRONUNCIATION:
(NEV-uhr-NEV-uhr land)
MEANING:
noun:
An idealized imaginary place where everything is perfect.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Never Never Land in J.M. Barrie's play Peter Pan (1904).
USAGE:
"The movie Alamar comes perilously close to turning into an escapist
fantasy of abandoning civilization for never-never land."Stephen Holden; A Boy's Slice of Paradise Is Time Alone With Dad; The New York Times; Jul 14, 2010. See more usage examples of never-never land in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Be good and you will be lonesome. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
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