Word of the Day

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8

Superannuated

[soo-pər-ANN-yoo-ey-ted]Part of speech: adjective

Origin: latin, 17th century

• Outdated, or obsolete
• Too old to work; retired due to old age

Examples of Superannuated in a sentence

• Every time Apple releases a new model, a wave of superannuated iPhones are discarded. 
• After a few accidents at work, he was superannuated and invited to retire. 

About Superannuated

The verb superannuate means to retire because of old age. The adjective form is a description of anything forced out of service due to age. This adjective comes from the Latin word “superannuatus,” which means to be too old. 

Some answers, some opinions regarding the Poll...

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Yesterday's poll was interesting, and the answers were sometimes unanimous, other times split by our perception.

I'm going to refer you to the comments that were made, many of them from st_crispins, who is knowledgeable concerning such things, and has given us some first hand information gleaned from her relationship with the creators of the show.

Regarding some of the less concrete answers, I'm going to take this route.

In the Ultimate Computer, Illya is once again undercover as a dirty prisoner in a South American jail while Napoleon has an attractive young woman to which he must tend.  He does romance her, and the last scene of the episode has Illya fairly cursing his partner for it; primarily because he's having to do all of the dirty work, literally.

Drinking vodka: Illya does drink other things, like beer in the Galatea Affair, and martinis in another episode the name of which I don't recall.

Check out the comments section in the poll entry HERE