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Word of the day chaos training
by Christine Lovatt
"No two classes of chaos training are ever the same..."
Chaos training is the latest gym fad, designed to eliminate the boredom of situps and jogging. Chaos trainers use props such as helium balloons which their victims must retrieve from the ceiling, or traffic cones (not sure what they do with them) but the tasks always change from week to week. I have enough chaos in my working week without seeking more!
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Word Fact
by The Quizzard
The Greek word 'koimeterion', meaning sleeping place, gradually transformed to the word CEMETERY
HYSTERIA was originally held to be a disease of women caused by a disturbance to their womb (Greek hyster)
The army colour, and more commonly the uniform material KHAKI, comes from an Urdu word which simply means 'dusty'
PAPARAZZO, meaning an intrusive photographer, is the name of a character in the 1960 film La Dolce Vita who would stop at nothing to get his snaps
In the 18th century, important men wore larger, costlier wigs. Hence the term BIGWIG
Calling an FBI officer a G-MAN does not stand for Government Man. It dates back to the G Division of the Dublin Police Force who investigated anti-government activities
APPLE OF HIS EYE first appears in the Bible referring to God's fondness for Jacob
The second shortest English word to contain all five vowels is EUNOIA, meaning 'beautiful thinking'
The term 'bumper crop' probably comes from a BUMPER being a large wine cup, used for toasting in celebrations
The Ethiopian town of Kaffa gave its name to COFFEE, the first place it was discovered in the 16th century