6 July 2018

Mafflard

noun

A mafflard is a term for someone who is a pure klutz. The website “Words and Phrases From The Past” calls a mafflard: “a stammering or blundering fool; a term of contempt.” Sounds like that mafflard in your life might be good friends with the raggabrash you met last week.

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Today’s quote

No is a powerful word. To me, it’s the single most powerful word in the English language. Said clearly, strongly and with enough frequency and force, it can alter the course of history.

– Shonda Rhimes

On this day

6 July 1925 – birth of Bill Haley, who arguably had the world’s first ever rock’n’roll song, ‘Rock Around the Clock’. Died 9 February 1981.

6 July 1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the ‘Secret Annexe’ above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

6 July 1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time. Three years later they formed the Beatles.