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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Word for the Day

Actually we are talking about an expression, not just a word. I am not sure I have ever heard it used before. It showed up in a Powell's (bookstore) Daily Dose  email:
". . . is about a newspaper reporter assigned to write the agony column,"
 An "agony column"? What the heck is an agony column? Wikipedia gives us a couple of definitions that might apply:
  • A column of a newspaper that contains advertisements of missing relatives and friends
  • Advice column in a newspaper
Two different kinds of emotional agony.


1 comment:

  1. Alternatively :-
    An isogone is a line of equal magnetic deviation and the Agone is a line of zero magnetic deviation. And Kalum is speculative Islamic theology.

    So perhaps the Agone Kalam is a piece written with zero deviation speculations in Islamic theology? ;-)

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