gammon

words with many unrelated meanings

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Word of the Day:
gammon (GAM-uhn) noun

1. Backgammon.

2. A victory in a backgammon game before the loser has removed any piece.

[Probably from Middle English gamen (game).]

3. A cured or smoked ham.

4. The bottom piece of a side of bacon.

[From Old French gambon (ham), from gambe (leg), from Late Latin gamba
(hoof), from Greek kampe (bend).]

verb tr., intr.

To deceive or to fool.

[Of uncertain origin, perhaps from the game of backgammon.]

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American Literature:

1. Read Chapter 9 in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. No homework night! Find your own green light and figure out how not to be destroyed by it!

3./4. Post Livejournal #6

5. Read xeroxed handouts of Gatsby essays, selection from Aznar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, and excerpt from Scott Russell Sanders

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Southern Literature and Culture:

1. Skim through Neon Vernacular by Yusef Koumunyakaa; bring to class three poems of his you would like to consider

2. No homework night! Do something Southern!

3./4. Read Acts 1-2 of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

5. Read Act 3 of Hamlet by William Shakespeare