The Word of the Day for September 1 is: rubric \ROO-brik\ noun *1 : heading, title; also: class, category 2 : a rule especially for the conduct of a liturgical service Example sentence: The new magazine includes a section of odd news items that fall under the rubric "Odds & Ends." Did you know? Centuries ago, whenever manuscript writers inserted special instructions or explanations into a book, they put them in red ink to set them off from the black used in the main text. (They used the same practice to highlight saints' names and holy days in calendars, a practice which gave us the term "red-letter day.") Ultimately, such special headings or comments came to be called "rubrics," a term that traces back to "ruber," the Latin word for "red." While the printing sense remains in use today, "rubric" also has an extended sense referring to any class or category under which something is organized. *Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence