Hmmm. The last day of February already. So far, the year has been less than satisfactory. Grey, cloudy, rainy, cold, wet, generally not a place one would care to spend a lot of time. We are complaining about it now, and we will be complaining about something totally different in a couple months. Hot, dry, windy, humid, no rain, too much rain, this and that. But for now, we are complaining about the weather that is most recent. 80 degrees yesterday, 40 degrees today. 70 degrees tomorrow, 30 degrees on Sunday. Two days of freezing overnight temperatures, wind-chills in the teens. We don't know how to drive in the rain, and mother nature does not know that it is not really that funny of a joke. Maybe sarcasm, but I doubt it.Facsimile -- Noun: 1. an exact copy. 2. a system of transmitting and reproducing graphic matter by means of signals sent over telephone lines. For her birthday, Jennie received a facsimile of her hometown newspaper's front page from the day she was born.
Did You Know? The facsimile machine (or fax machine) has been a staple of the modern office for a while now, and its name is much, much older. Fac simile is a Latin phrase meaning "make similar." English speakers began using facsimile as a noun meaning "an exact copy" in the late 1600s. In this sense, a facsimile might be a handwritten or hand drawn copy, or even a copy of a painting or statue. (Today, we also use the phrase "a reasonable facsimile" for a copy that is not exact but fairly close.) In the 1800s, people developed facsimile technology that could reproduce printed material via telegraph, and we usually call the resulting facsimile a fax.
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