The Word (radio) The Word (radio) The Word was a weekly half-hour radio programme on the BBC World Service about books and writers. Its final edition was in October 2008. Once a month its slot was taken over by "World Book Club", in which listeners submitted questions to a famous writer. Both programmes were presented by Harriett Gilbert. "World Book Club" continues to be broadcast once a month on Saturdays. "The Word" emerged from an earlier World Service book programme "Meridian Books" (which had several presenters, including Michael Rosen, Verity Sharp, and Rosemary Hartill,) as well as a poetry request programme, "Poems by
Intercalary month (Egypt) and "epagomenal days" derive from Latin ' ("proclaimed between") and Greek "epagómenoi" () or "epagómenai" (, "brought in" or "added on"), Latinized as '. The period is also sometimes known as the "monthless days". In ancient Egypt, the period was known as the "Five Days upon the Year" (), the "Five Days" (') or "Those upon the Year" ('), the last of which is transliterated as . Parker also proposed that in some cases the intercalary month was known by the name Thoth ("") after the festival that gave its name to the following month. In modern Egypt, the period