This week's theme: Words with hidden connections to animals. sommelier (sum-uhl-YAY) noun A wine steward in a restaurant. [From French sommelier, from somm(er)ier (one charged with transporting supplies), from somier (beast of burden), from somme (burden). From driving a pack animal to drafting wine lists, a sommelier has come a long way. A sommelier is to wine as a cicerone is to beer, though the latter has been introduced recently and is not widespread.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=sommelier -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "First class passengers, who will pay about $20,000 a ticket to Europe, will have their own onboard sommelier to guide them through an array of wines to accompany their five-star meals." 'Superbird' Flights Offer Five-star Luxury; Gold Coast News (Queensland, Australia); Jun 17, 2008 . Sponsors' messages: "Telemachus or the Memoirs of an Immortal God" by Robert J. Thieblot. A good read for the intelligent. Check it out at http://amazon.com/o/asin/0965946509 Italian and Spanish. Subscribe at: http://web.champs-elysees.com/wsmith7 Subscribe to any of the French, German, Italian or Spanish Champs-Elysees Audio Magazines and get an extra issue free: http://web.champs-elysees.com/wsmith7 ............................................................................ God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. -Paul Valery, poet and philosopher (1871-1945) Our privacy policy: AWAD mailing list addresses are never sold, rented, leased, traded, swapped, exchanged, or bartered. We hate junk mail. Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/sommelier.mp3 Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/sommelier.html Unsubscribe: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber-form.cgi?request=unsub&username=je…