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a moment dressed up to sound important whether or not it is
means A formal or public statement that tells people something has happened, will happen, or is now official.
from From the Latin 'annountiare', a blend of 'ad-' (to, toward) and 'nuntiare' (to report), which itself springs from 'nuntius', a messenger or bringer of news. The word traveled through Old French 'anoncier' before settling into English, carrying with it that sense of someone arriving expressly to make news known — the messenger always implied, even when the message is small.
- royal style
- births once posted on Buckingham Palace easel, not Twitter
- public address
- PA system literally means public announcement amplifier
- banns
- churches announced marriages aloud to catch secret objections
- town crier
- medieval news came shouted, ending with hear ye
kennedy moon speech — jfk committed us to landing on the moon by 1969 in his may 1961 address to congress
harry truman japan surrender — august 6, 1945 public announcement of atomic bombing of hiroshima that ended wwii