http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/forums/11 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:08:24 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/forums/11 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5135/t/A-face-like-the-back-of-a-bus.html London bus, circa 50s/60s. Nothing especially ungainly there, although I confess a girl blessed with such a visage might have some difficulty in stealing the boronti heart.

How old is the phrase, and is it used in the States? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5135 Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:23:44 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5138/t/Salamander.html
Salamanders are coupled with fire.

Any more info? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (oldnavyflop) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5138 Sun, 31 Aug 2003 23:00:29 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5140/t/QED.html
Thanks,
Tim ]]> feeds@yuku.com (oldnavyflop) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5140 Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:40:05 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5143/t/Clapping.html
I remember in the mid-60s, seeiing footage of a Chinese People's Congress, where Chou-En-Lai was being feted and receiving standing applause. I noticed that Chou was clapping along with them, and I thought, that is really weird, applauding while being applauded.

Then, blink, we're in the 70s/80s, and suddenly everybody in the West is acting in a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5143 Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:43:04 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5142/t/Redding-reading-.html feeds@yuku.com (geoff(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5142 Sun, 31 Aug 2003 08:54:36 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5134/t/Two-Judaic-questions.html Insatiate Countess at present. It's an 1820 edition of the play, and the editor, who can barely contain his loathing for Marston and all his works, is most unhelpful in his annotations.

In the passage in question, two merchants, Signior Claridiana and Signior Mizaldes, are at each others' throats, piling insult upon insult. Mizaldes is a Jew, a fact which has not, shall we say, escaped Claridiana's attention.

CLARID:

Thou son of a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5134 Sun, 31 Aug 2003 05:40:18 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5137/t/egghead.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5137 Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:47:38 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5144/t/number-1-number-2.html feeds@yuku.com (pieter68) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5144 Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:27:16 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5153/t/game.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5153 Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:40:36 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5136/t/faggot.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5136 Sat, 30 Aug 2003 10:27:37 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5149/t/Eh.html
And for the rest of us mere mortals: read everything that you never wanted to know about this word at www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=987106

]]> feeds@yuku.com (ElizaD) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5149 Sat, 30 Aug 2003 10:15:27 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5148/t/Loss-of-status-for-the-term-negro.html
When did the term Negro become the rarely preferred term that it is today?

It wasn't that long ago that it was the term used by the leaders of the civil rights movement. Was it a fairly sudden change?

I would also ask the same question of the word colored. ]]> feeds@yuku.com (OP Tipping) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5148 Sat, 30 Aug 2003 04:43:13 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5154/t/Little-green-men.html feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5154 Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:57:32 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5145/t/Elephant-what-.html
But, halfway through, the narrator begins to talk of the African worm responsible for the terrible disease known as - elephantitis! She repeats the error about a dozen times, clearly the word elephantiasis is unknown to anybody on this network.

Wondering if it's me that's behind the times, I check MWO, but am relieved to see that the word has no imprimatur there (you never know... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5145 Fri, 29 Aug 2003 22:12:38 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5155/t/Felis-Rufus.html origin? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5155 Fri, 29 Aug 2003 19:05:51 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5156/t/sauce.html ]]> feeds@yuku.com (daffyduck) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5156 Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:38:09 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5152/t/hunting-line-.html
In the US, I believe it would read "253-1000 (switchboard)" if anything. Is "hunting" UBlish, by any chance?

]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5152 Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:39:41 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5147/t/orange-smoothie.html
]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5147 Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:29:58 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5164/t/Jake.html Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.

Chuck spread his hands. "I'll back you on this. No matter what. You want to find Laeddis and kill him? That's jake with me."
"Jake." Teddy smiled. "I haven't heard that since -"

He doesn't complete the sentence, and events swiftly move the marshalls' minds away from matters etymological. I can easily gather the sense, but where does the word come from? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5164 Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:28:55 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5150/t/need-help-with-two-words.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5150 Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:34:12 GMT