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Word of the Day Website Home The Word of the Day for Friday July 3, 2009 is ADDENDUM (a den dum)--something that is to be or has been added or an appendix to a book. ADDENDA is the plural.

The thirteen original colonies that formed the United States of America 232 years ago this weekend probably could not have imagined the 37 addenda that would later join them as part of the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.


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