Today’s WOTD – 30 August 2012
Yex
noun, intrasitive verb
1. to hiccup or belch.
‘He yexeth and he speaketh through the nose‘ – Chaucer.
Examples:
‘As the pre-dawn light softly illuminated the house, John’s deep sleep was shattered by an involuntary, yet deafening yex, unleashed from the deepest fathoms of his slumbering wife’s famished stomach’.
Today’s aphorism
‘Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers.’
Muhammad, the Last Sermon, ninth day of Dhul Hijjah 10 A.H. (c 630 AD) at Mecca
On this day
30 August 580 – birth of Muhammad, prophet and founder of Islam.
30 August 1146 – European leaders optimistically outlaw the cross-bow with the belief that it will end war for evermore. The ban was flouted and cross-bows continued to be used until they were replaced by fire-arms in the 16th century.