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Last week, the theme was "Words with three letters in alphabetic sequence " and the first word to be featured on monday(last monday), was "defenestrate". Link: http://wordsmith.org/words/defenestrate.html PRONUNCIATION: (dee-FEN-uh-strayt) MEANING: verb tr.: To throw someone or something out of a window. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin de- (out of) + fenestra (window). USAGE: "When someone in a Joe Lansdale novel is defenestrated, you feel like shaking the glass shards out of your lap." Jeff Salamon; The Further Adventures of Hap and Leonard; The Austin American-Statesman (Texas); Jul 4, 2009 . Richard M Stallman has written back to the sender, and it was featured in the weekly summary email, and here it goes....:-) From: Richard Stallman (rms gnu.org) Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--defenestrate Def: To throw someone or something out of a window. To "defenestrate" a computer also means to install some other operating system, such as GNU/Linux, in place of Microsoft Windows. --------------------------------- -- Natarajan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc