Adjustable Sails

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." --Carl Hermann Voss

Monday, January 10, 2005

WoW: 1/10/05

conflate, trans. verb (kuhn-FLAT)
to fuse, join, or meld together
n: conflation

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About the Title:
"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." --source unknown

"Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God." --Oliver Wendell Holmes

Pronunciation Guide:
/a/ = able, make
/ah/ = father, operate
/ae/ = ashes, fast
/ee/ = emu, flee
/eh/ = edible, head
/i/ = icing, write
/ih/ = intense, kick
/o/ = open, hold
/oo/ = shoot, flew
/u/ = put, hook
/uh/ = run, under
/zh/ = azure, measure
/th/ = think, ethics
/dh/ = this, either
/e/ = filler sound, mostly combined with /r/ and /l/;
brother, earthquake