#bissextus

[carnivalofglee]

Happy bissextus*, everyone!

*Not what you're thinking it means.

(It just means today is leap day, Feb. 29)

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Word of the Day!

Bissextus bahy-SEKS-tuh s, bi-\

noun

1. February 29th: the extra day added to the Julian calendar every fourth year (except those evenly divisible by 400) to compensate for the approximately six hours a year by which the common year of 365 days falls short of the solar year.

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Wordplay of the week: Bissextus

What would you do if you had an extra day? Would you use it for play? Would you get more Sun? Find a way to have fun? Would you squeeze all out of it till the last drop? Will you keep moving forward and not let anything make you stop? Would you spend it with the people you love? Or it humbly praying to the Man in above? Would you are admire the beauty of Nature, or go have a drink and try a new flavor. Whatever you do, I hope you enjoyed it, major. Because you n

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Word of the Day - bissextus at Dictionary.com

[dduane]

It's February 29 – Leap Day – but the adolescent in me can't forgo snickering at its old school name.

About February 29th, old style (the way the Romans did it).

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A Leap of Faith

In a leap year, on the bissextus, February 29, it seems only natural that we are more than on any other day inclined to take a leap of faith. And that is exactly what the misses and me did when we took our son to hospital this morning.

The planned procedure, myringotomy(from Latin myringa “eardrum”), involves placing ear tubes (i.e. tiny cylinders) through the ear drums to allow air into the…

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[excitingrbl]

#bissextus has absolutely nothing to do with being #bisexual. it's the definition of the actual day added to the calendar that gives us #leapyear