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 More options Oct 16 2007, 12:31 am
From: "Arthur Polishchuk" <apolishc...@ames.org.ua>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:31:56 +0300
Local: Tues, Oct 16 2007 12:31 am
Subject: National Boss Day

Hello everyone!
Today is National Boss Day!!!!

How would you describe someone who has risen up and become a manager?
Embossed!

The word boss has its origins in Dutch (from baas: master, foreman), but
there are several homonyms of the word. Is your boss a timid manager, or
a bungler, or ... ? Depending on how your boss runs the show, you apply
one of these alternative meanings:

1. boss : a calf or a cow. That's where Bossy, a familiar name for a cow,
  comes from. (From English dialect borse/boss/buss: a six-months-old calf)

2. boss: a protuberance or swelling on the body of an animal or plant
  This is where the word emboss comes from. (From Old French boce)

3. boss-eyed, adjective:  cross-eyed or squint-eyed. (origin uncertain)

4. boss, verb: to bungle. (origin uncertain)

Why refer to your supervisor just as a plain old boss? On National Boss Day
(Oct 16), why not use a more colorful word from this week's selection?

archon (AHR-kon) noun

  A high official or ruler.

[From Latin archon, from Greek arkhon (magistrate), from arkhein (to be
first, to rule).  An archon was one of the nine principal magistrates in
ancient Athens.]

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