I like words. I get dictionary.com’s word of the day delivered to my inbox every morning. About once a week the word of the day will be a word that I’m not entirely familiar with and about once a month the word will be one that is unknown to me. Today’s word was both appropriate and unknown.
Word of the Day for Friday February 14, 2003
- osculation \os-kyuh-LAY-shuhn\, noun:
- The act of kissing; also: a kiss.
He had engaged in nervous osculation with all three of Lord Flamborough’s daughters.
—Thomas Sutcliffe, “The art of seduction, the skill of the tackle,”
[1]Independent, June 13, 1994
Their incessant onstage osculations during her last concert tour seemed to offer public proof of their passion.
—“The Big Boom in Breakups,” [2]People, November 13, 1995
Osculation comes from osculatio, “a kissing,” from osculari, “to kiss,” from osculum, “a little mouth, a kiss,” diminutive of os, “mouth.”
References
- http://www.independent.co.uk/
- http://people.com/
Happy Valentine’s day.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
