28 November 2016

Chapman stick

[chap muhn stik]

noun

1. an electronically amplified musical instrument with ten or twelve strings and a fretted neck, which is played by striking the strings against the frets with the fingers Often shortened to Stick

Word Origin

– named after its inventor, Emmett H. Chapman (born 1936), US guitarist
Collins English Dictionary –

Example

The busker was playing a Chapman stick.

Anagram

pitchman cask
catch an skimp
camp tin shack

Today’s quote

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

– Citium Zeno

On this day

28 November 1968 – death of Enid Blyton, British author of numerous series of children’s stories, including ‘Noddy‘, ‘Famous Five‘, and ‘Secret Seven‘. Born 11 August 1897.

28 November 1990 – UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation following disendorsement by her Cabinet on 22 November 1990.

28 November 1994 – U.S. serial killer and cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer, bashed to death while cleaning a prison toilet. Dahmer was serving 15 life sentences for the murder of 15 men and boys. He had initially faced 17 murder charges, but this had been reduced.