Today’s WOTD – 12 September 2012

mythomania

[mith-uh-mey-nee-uh]

noun (Psychiatry)

– lying or exaggerating to an abnormal degree.

For example:

‘I feel the salesman was not blessed with the gift of oration, but afflicted with mythomania‘.

Today’s quote

‘Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black-outs’.

– Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors.

On this day

12 September 1869 – death of Peter Roget, British lexographer and creator of Roget’s Thesaurus. (Born 18 January 1779).

12 September 1885 – the highest scoring soccer match in history is played in a Scottish Cup match between Arbroath and Bon Accord. Arbroath won 36-0.

12 September 2001 – Ansett, Australia’s first commercial airline, collapses.

12 September 2003 – death of Johnny Cash, American singer and musician. Born 26 February 1932.