The low temperature today was 68 degrees, the highest low temperature recorded in February, EVER...I think. Not sure...but that is what I think. It is supposed to start raining over night, and temperatures are to PLUNGE (PLUNGE I TELL YOU), for the next couple days. There is a chance of a light freeze, but we happen to be in a warmer spot than others in the area, so we are generally a couple degrees warmer in the 'winter' than the reporting stations around us. I left the house this morning at 6 o'clock, and got to my assigned glass location at 8:35. It was dark, it was foggy, the roads were wet, traffic was traffic. BUT, it was a good class, and tomorrow is another day!Spurious -- Adjective: 1. of illegitimate birth. 2. not genuine: false. The lawyer told the press that the accusations against her client were spurious.
Did You Know? The Classical Latin adjective spurius started out as a word meaning "illegitimate." In the days of ancient Rome, it was sometimes even used as a first name for illegitimate offspring - apparently with no dire effects. There was a certain Spurius Lucretius, for example, who was made temporary magistrate of Rome. In less tolerant times, 18th century English writer Horace Walpole noted that Henry VII "came of the spurious stock of John of Gaunt." Today, we still use spurious to mean "illegitimate," but the more common meaning is "false: (a sense introduced to spurious in Late Latin). Originally our "false" sense emphasized improper origin, and it still often does ("a spurious signature"), but it can also simply mean "fake" or "not real."
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