Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Top 10 Words You Simply Must Know: #5

Hallux - first digit on the foot: the big toe on the human foot, or the first digit on the hind foot of some mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians (technical)

The ballerina had her hallux insured for $10 million!

Isn't it enough that I've made my Madeleine memorize the names of bones in the human skeletal system? Now I have to teach her hallux? Oh, the things a mother does to deliver genius via her offspring [sigh]...

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