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| | Word of the Day - yourDictionary.com |
 | | Usage: Today's is a lovely word that is used less often than the adjective derived from it: "pithy." For centuries it was featured in the popular idiom "pith and marrow," as those who are the very pith and marrow of a club, which is to say, the very heart of it. |
 | | Of course, when the British were traipsing about the tropics at the turn of the last century, they often wore really cool pith helmets, made of the soft pith of the solah or spongewood plant of Bengal, pressed, molded, and encased in cloth. |
 | | So English, as it is wont to do, kept its own "pith," borrowed "pit" from Dutch, and ended up with two words for the history of one. |
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