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Word of the day skin
by Christine Lovatt
Apart from all the long-known meanings of skin, the computer term means a customised user graphic interface for an operating system - in other words, the outer appearance of a website or software. A basic operational system can appear quite different by applying a new skin. This skinning process is done either to make the look more pleasing or to make it easier to use.
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Word Fact
by The Quizzard
In Old English, the word WITH meant 'against'. This meaning is still preserved in phrases such as 'to fight with'
Colloquial for losing weight, BATTLE OF THE BULGE dates back to a WWII German offensive which bulged the battlelines until repulsed
CANVAS, because it was made from hemp, gets its name from the Latin word 'cannabis'
The Irish language has no words for 'YES and 'NO. Is that right? It is
The word COPPER comes from the Latin for Cyprus, a source of the metal
WAIF, a homeless child, is a word which started life as 'weip' meaning 'tremble'. It later transformed into the meaning of something loose and floating about in the wind
APPLE OF HIS EYE first appears in the Bible referring to God's fondness for Jacob
Some unknown Irish street thug called Houlihan is responsible for the word HOOLIGAN
COP, the slang word for Police, most probably comes from a Latin word 'capere' meaning to seize
A SPUD was a digging tool, useful for unearthing potatoes and the name eventually meant the potato itself