The Wordnik Word of the Day for August 7, 2012 is

pharology
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(noun) The art or science which treats of lighthouses and signal lights.

‘Pharology’ comes from ‘pharos,’ lighthouse, which is named after Pharos, a peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea at Alexandria, Egypt, and the site of an ancient lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

 

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