Today’s WOTD – 13 September 2012
tergiversate
[tur-ji-ver-seyt]
verb (used without object), tergiversated, tergiversating.
1. to change repeatedly one’s attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
2. to turn renegade.
For example:
John was his own debate team, both for and against
He was always willing to express and justify an opinion, however, his tergiversating on common arguments often had him arguing against himself from one day to the next.
Today’s quote
‘Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first’.
– Mark Twain
On this day
13 September 1503 – Michelango commences his iconic sculpture, ‘David‘.
13 September 1922 – official highest temperature ever recorded: 57.8oC (138oF) at Azizya, Libya.
13 September 1940 – German Luftwaffe bombs Buckingham Palace, London, while King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) are in residence.