1 September 2017

smout

/smaʊt/

noun (Scot)

1. a child or undersized person

Collins English Dictionary

smout, smowt, n. (slang) a printer who gets chance jobs in various offices.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)

Anagram

to sum

Today’s quote

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

– Edgar Rice Burroughs

On this day

1 September 1875 – birth of Edgar Rice Burroughs, American science fiction author: Tarzan, Mars series (on which the 2012 movie ‘John Carter‘ was based). Died 19 March 1950.

1 September 1939 – official commencement date of World War II, when Germany invaded Poland.