The Word of the Day for October 19 is:The Word of the Day for October 19 is:raconteur \rak-kahn-TER or rak-kun-TER\ (noun) : a person who excels at telling anecdotesExample sentence: A bona fide raconteur, Turner can turn even mundaneexperiences into hilariously entertaining stories.Did you know? The story of "raconteur" is a tale of telling andcounting. English borrowed the word from French, which derivedit from the Middle French verb "raconter," meaning "to tell.""Raconter" in turn traces to the Old French verb "aconter,acompter," meaning "to tell" or "to count," and ultimately toLatin "computare," meaning "to count." "Computare" is also thesource of our "count" and "account." "Raconteur" has been partof the English vocabulary since at least 1828.