Thanks to Anu Garg, the mastermind behind the A Word A Day email newsletter that is ever enlarging my vocabulary, I have been informed of a twice-in-the-history-of-the-world event that will happen tomorrow, twice!
Tomorrow, just after midnight and again just after noon, your watch will read 12:34:56 on 07/08/09. Take a moment, or perhaps two moments, to celebrate! I'll schedule tomorrow's grammar post to go live at exactly that time. And I also plan to look at the clock for one full second, say "wow," and then forget about it immediately.
As Anu Garg pointed out, similar "events" have happened in the past:
01:23:45 6/7/89
12:34.56 7/8/90
01:02:03 04/05/06
And, in just a couple of months, we can look forward to 09:09:09 09/09/09. Will the fun never stop?
A Word A Day is commemorating this sequential event by sharing five words this week that have three or more letters in alphabetic sequence. Today's word is "limnology: the study of bodies of water, like lakes and ponds," while yesterday's was "defenestrate: to throw something out of a window." Click here to sign up to see the rest of this week's words. I predict that "hijinks" could possibly be on the list this week.
