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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Pollyanna
 
SYLLABICATION:Pol·ly·an·na
PRONUNCIATION:  pl-n
NOUN: A person regarded as being foolishly or blindly optimistic.
ETYMOLOGY:After the heroine of the novel Pollyanna, by Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868–1920), American writer.
 
 
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