Today's Word "ken"
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ken \KEN\ (noun) - 1 : Perception; understanding; knowledge. 2 : The range of vision. 3 : View; sight.
"Little things, trifles, slip out of one's ken, and one does not think it matter for surprise; but how a so bulky thing as the Seal of England can vanish away and no man be able to get track of it again..." -- Mark Twain, 'The Prince and the Pauper
Ken is from Middle English kennen, from Old English cennan, "to declare, to make known."
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