From: Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed 16 Oct 2002 - 15:56:22 GMT
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Subject: A.Word.A.Day--brodie
brodie (BROH-dee) noun
1. A daredevil or suicidal jump.
2. A spectacular failure.
3. A sudden change in a vehicle's direction.
[After Steve Brodie, who claimed to be the first person to survive a dive
from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886.]
Should you believe Steve Brodie's claim? Here's the math:
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/301/lectures/node22.html
"The yuppie market is where everybody wants to be because that's where
the money is -- or was, up until the Dow Jones did a Brodie."
John R. White, Buick Regal, The Boston Globe, Nov 15, 1987.
"After all the hype, the movie did a brodie after the second week."
Jim Beckerman, et al, The Highs & Lows of '97 Movies, Record (Bergen
County, NJ), Dec 28, 1997.
This week's theme: eponyms, or words derived from people's names.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of
prose
and poetry; that is, prose, - words in their best order; poetry, - the
best
words in their best order. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), poet,
critic
Pronunciation:
http://wordsmith.org/words/brodie.wav
http://wordsmith.org/words/brodie.ram
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