This concludes the s's...always a sad moment for me to conclude a letter. But...there are many other words that I keep in another list for each letter to talk about later. I have only covered 7 of the 26 letters so far, with very large sections yet to come. (347 pages of the dictionary discussed so far, with 1,008 more to go...)
syrinx: the vocal part of a bird's lower trachea and bronchi that it uses to sing.
Syrinx: the maiden who chased the Greek god Pan; she was turned into reeds that he would play as a musical instrument.
So many of our words are derived from Greek mythology. I will create this category in the introduction.
syzygy [synm together, with; zygon zygote (egg), yoke or conjunction] \sih' zih jee\:
alignment of three celestial bodies, i.e. solar eclipse (earth, moon, sun)
Although I felt like I was the only one to have ever discovered this eclectic word (even joking about it during tennis matches), I have come to discover that it is the title of one of the X-Files episodes (where syzygy causes some teenagers to develop telekinetic powers) and also the name of a tile company from Silver City, New Mexico (of course) with beautiful, muted mosaic appearing tiles. The company was founded during a lunar eclipse (a syzygy).
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