Hi,
I have subscribed to "A word a day" service from http://www.wordsmith.org/
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.
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Natarajan
