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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carolyn who wrote (43479)	7/28/2002 6:09:03 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I'm sure I would have, oh well next time! Did you have computer withdrawal?? Have you been doing a lot of shopping?

To: Carolyn who wrote (43479)	7/28/2002 6:48:52 PM
From: Sarkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

LOL!! This would have been the word for Friday. Word of the Day for Friday July 26, 2002: peregrination \pehr-uh-gruh-NAY-shun\, noun: A traveling from place to place; a wandering. He left Parma in the family camper-van, abandoning it in a Milan car-park to avoid its being identified at border controls before setting off on a peregrination through Switzerland, France, London, Canada, New York and eventually back to London. --Paddy Agnew, "Incident leads to crime that has baffled police," [1]Irish Times, December 12, 1998 In 1890, Lafcadio Hearn settled in Japan after a lifetime of restless, melancholy peregrination. --Francine Prose, "Modern Geisha," [2]New York Times, April 23, 2000 He ventures out in his pajamas and makes a dreamlike peregrination through the town's deserted streets. --Richard Eder, "Puck-ish Ramblings in Midsummer Dreams," [3]New York Times, May 18, 2000 _________________________________________________________ Peregrination comes from Latin peregrinatio, from peregrinari, "to stay or travel in foreign countries," from peregre, "in a foreign country, abroad," from per, "through" + ager, "land."