365* New Words a Year [Merriam Webster] (Workman Publishing) 4/21/8: steganogrphy
steganography n : the art or practice of concealing a message, image, or file within another message, image, or file.
DYK: "'Stenograhy' is a word that was resurrected after being in disuse for almost 150 years. It was put to rest in the early 1800s, labeled an archaic synonym for 'cryptography' by dictionary makers, but was brought back to life in the 1980s as a word for a type of digital cryptography. . . . [I]t's based on the Greek steganos, meaning 'covered' or 'reticent'." Not related to stegosaurus.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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