Word of the Day for Monday, April 25, 2011
marginalia \mahr-juh-NEY-lee-uh\, noun:
Notes in the margin of a book, manuscript, or letter.
Wouldn't you just love to write some gibberish in the marginalia of the B.O.'s notes that pop up on his teleprompters; it would be kind of like Bruce Almighty when he was messing with Evan Baxter and making him talk gibberish on screen!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
On the huge mahogany table there lay face downward a badly worn copy of Borellus, bearing many cryptical marginalia and interlineations in Curwen's hand.-- Howard Phillips Lovecraft, S. T. Joshi, The thing on the doorstep and other weird stories
But the scribbled marginalia in Myhre's notebook tells a different tale.-- "Sweat without the Wet?," Popular Science, Vol. 261, No. 3
Marginalia derives from the Latin marginalis, "the space or edge of something, or something of little importance."
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