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Raison d'etre
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
raison d'être
1864, first recorded in letter of J.S. Mill, from Fr., lit. "rational grounds for existence."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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