10 June 2013

verbiage

verbiage

[vur-bee-ij]

noun
1. overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
2. manner or style of expressing something in words; wording: a manual of official verbiage.

Origin:
1715–25; < French, equivalent to Middle French verbi ( er ) to gabble + -age -age

Today’s aphorism

‘Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world … enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space’.

– Abraham Lincoln

On this day

10 June 323 BC – death of Alexander the Great, Macedonian King.

10 June 1935 – Alcoholics Anonymous founded by two recovering alcoholics, using a 12-step program to help alcoholics overcome their addiction.

10 June 1967 – end of the Six Day War, when Israel and the Arab coalition consisting of Egypt, Jordan & Syria, agree to a UN mediated cease-fire.