28 August 2014

cockalorum

[kok-uh-lawr-uh m, -lohr-]

noun

1. a self-important little man.

2. bragging talk; crowing

Origin

1705-1715 1705-15; mock Latin, equivalent to cock1+ fanciful -al- + L genitive plural ending -ōrum

Anagram

mock ocular

Today’s aphorism

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

On this day

28 August 1837 – Worcestershire Sauce manufactured by John Lea and William Perrins.

28 August 1963 – Martin Luther King Jr gives his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech to 250,000 civil rights activists in Washington DC, in which he called for an end to racism.