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Word of the Day for Monday, June 9, 2008raconteur \rack-on-TUR\, noun: One who excels in telling stories and anecdotes. An excellent raconteur, he had a varied stock of stories and enjoyed the joke just as much when it was on himself as he did when it was on some one else. Korda's tone of voice is affectionate and urbane, his manner that of the accomplished raconteur who never spoils the story with a heavy-handed moral, relying for his effect on the telling anecdote and the apt phrase. He has an excellent raconteur's mind, memory, vocabulary and tongue, brings in a story just at the right time, in the right manner, serves his anecdotes perfectly either piping hot or ice-cold as tragedies. Raconteur is from French, from raconter, "to relate, to tell, to narrate," from Old French, from re- + aconter, | |||||||||
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