What new word did you learn today?

[Louanne Learning]

when it comes to visualization.

In my family, we definitely have different ways of best getting language into our brains. My sister much prefers audio books, I have to read the print on the page. I guess I'm not that good at audio signals

 

[Rad Scribbler]

Gerrymandering
~ The manipulation of an electoral constituencies boundaries so as to favour one party or class.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Aye. From wikipedia:

Gerrymandering. A portmanteau of a salamander and Elbridge Gerry, a US VP until his death who -- as governor of Massachusetts in 1812 -- signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a salamander.

The term has negative connotations, and gerrymandering is almost always considered a corruption of the democratic process. The word gerrymander can be used both as a verb for the process and as a noun for a resulting district.

A political cartoon was drawn at the time to show this. Take a look: