4 December 2015
dactylonomy
[dak-til-on-uh-mee]
noun
– the act of counting using one’s fingers.
Example
Dactylonomy is not the domain of children or the slow of thought. Back in the day, pre-calculators, dactylonomy was an art form in which people could count up to 9,999 with one knuckle, two joints and three bones per finger available for calculations(1).
Anagram
my candy loot
my tycoon lad
Source:
1. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-dac1.htm
Today’s quote
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
– Bernard Malamud
On this day
4 December 1952 – A deadly smog in London caused by soot and sulphur dioxide from factories, cars and home coal-fires. It continues for four days and kills at least 4,000 people.
4 December 1954 – the first franchised Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida by James McLamore and David Edgerton.
4 December 1961 – the birth control contraceptive pill (‘the pill’) available publicly through the National Health Service.
4 December 1969 – 14 police shoot dead two members of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton and Mary Clark, who were asleep in their apartment. The Black Panther Party was committed to racial equality and rights for African Americans.