Word of the day: Snarge, "remains of a bird after it has collided with an aircraft, especially a turbine engine."
Possibly "a combination of the words "snot" and "garbage"."
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Definition The remains of a bird after it has collided with an aircraft (in a bird strike), especially a turbine engine. The origin of the term appears to be U.S. military aviation slang and a combination of the words "snot" and "garbage". Accident investigation Following ingestion in a turbine engine, there is often very little of the bird left to identify the species. remains and swabs of samples taken from the aircraft are sent for analysis to determine the species by comparison with feathers on file and DNA analysis. Determining the species involved can help investigators determine the circumstances that resulted in the bird strike and inform recommendations to avoid a recurrence - for example a change in bird control strategies, or arrival and departure routes.
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Word of the Day: Marginalia
In the introduction to his essay titled 'Marginalia,' Edgar Allan Poe wrote: 'In getting my books, I have always been solicitous of an ample margin; this not so much through any love of the thing in
📕 Word of the Day: marginalia
marginalia • \mahr-juh-NAY-lee-uh\ • noun
Marginalia is a plural noun that refers to notes or other marks written in the margins of a text, and also to nonessential matters or items.
// I loved flipping through my literature textbooks to find the marginalia left behind by former students.
// She found the documentary's treatment of not only the major events but also the marginalia of Scandinavian history fascinating.
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“Marginalia have a long history: Leonardo da Vinci famously scribbled thoughts about gravity years before Galileo Galilei published his magnum opus on the subject; the discovery was waiting under our noses in the margins of Leonardo’s Codex Arundel.” — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 19 Sept. 2025
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In the introduction to his essay titled “Marginalia,” Edgar Allan Poe wrote: “In getting my books, I have always been solicitous of an ample margin; this not so much through any love of the thing in itself, however agreeable, as for the facility it affords me of penciling suggested thoughts, agreements and differences of opinion, or brief critical comments in general.” At the time the essay was first published in 1844, marginalia was only a few decades old despite describing something—notes in the margin of a text—that had existed for centuries. An older word, apostille (or apostil), refers to a single annotation made in a margin, but that word is rarely used today. Even if you are not, like Poe, simply ravenous for scribbling in your own books, you likely know marginalia as a telltale sign that someone has read a particular volume before you.
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