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Shoutout to everting for informing me of this ... I am dictionary.com's Word of the Day! Did you know that my name means all of those things? I'd bet you did! Feel free to use my name in any creative sentences you can think of. Best submission gets a personally baked loaf of banana bread from yours truly.

Word of the Day: Ken
October 20th, 2006

ken \KEN\, noun:

1. Perception; understanding; knowledge.
2. The range of vision.
3. View; sight.

He was to make several important discoveries, the most significant being that infantile paralysis was caused not by germs, as cerebrospinal meningitis had been, but by a mysterious agent just then emerging into the ken of science.
-- James Thomas Flexner, Maverick's Progress

So we are predisposed -- if not preprogrammed -- to accept tales of animals who display human motives, understanding, reason, and intentions. It takes a far greater imagination to conceive the possibility that a dog's mental life may assume a form that is simply beyond our ken.
-- Stephen Budiansky, If a Lion Could Talk

Libussa, the youngest, particularly beautiful, unworldly and serious, was able to see what was hidden from other people's ken and to prophesy.
-- Peter Demetz, Prague in Black and Gold

Ken is from Middle English kennen, from Old English cennan, "to declare, to make known."

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Anonymous said…
The breadth and depth of the writer's ken is reflected in the thoughtfulness of his blog. :)
9:32 AM
Anonymous said…
Can Ken's ken be kenneling?
9:47 PM
Unknown said…
hahha! that's so awesome!
11:27 PM
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