http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/forums/12 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:04:52 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/12 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/5654/t/solfeggio.html
EDIT: Wasn't there some counterpart, a la "solfalisation"?

]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5654 Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:40:00 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5635/t/Jim-Crow.html
This quote is from a letter (1851) from Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Does anybody know what the "Jim Crow" he refers to might be? Penny candy? Licorice? Some item known only regionally by that name?


The quote:
"P.S. The marriage of Phoebe with the daguerreotypist is a fine stroke, because of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (xsjsx) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5635 Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:05:23 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5658/t/Cuts-no-ice.html That cuts no ice with me, ie that does not impress me.

How old is this use, and does it derive from the figurative 'breaking ice', as at a party? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5658 Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:53:52 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5644/t/Another-apostrophe-question.html Fellini's 8 1/2, Fellini's Roma but Fellini Satyricon. Is there some reason other than sales and marketing? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (janeskid) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5644 Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:49:14 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5633/t/Choose.html
JERRY: ...Well, I'll tell ya what: I'll choose you for it.

Straight choose, three takes it, no disputes...that's it, you

gotta win three.

GEORGE: OK [they walk around each other]...OK. I'll choose

you...whatta ya want?

JERRY: Odds

GEORGE: I want evens.

JERRY: Good.

GEORGE: You got odds.

JERRY You got... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5633 Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:06:25 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5641/t/cremains.html
How far back?

]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5641 Wed, 12 Nov 2003 04:13:15 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5647/t/On-your-mark-get-set-.html
Why does MWO have a "go" button? Trying to look up the "tilt" sense of "list", I noticed that every time I clicked on another entry, the page updated immediately, without waiting for the "go".

Does this have something to do with my single- vs. double- click settings, or does it jump others' guns likewise? The only other site where I've noticed this is the refurb section of Dell.com.

]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5647 Wed, 12 Nov 2003 03:46:29 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5636/t/When-is-a-nonce-not-a-nonce-.html
If the latter, can I rese my nonces? (running low!)

]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5636 Wed, 12 Nov 2003 03:36:40 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5648/t/Is-quot-neolib-quot-a-word-.html neolibs?"

Google shows 1500, actually. And yet, I can't recall ever hearing it used on Limbaugh, etc. Would seem a natural word to come up frequently.

Who first nonced it?

]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5648 Wed, 12 Nov 2003 03:33:16 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5650/t/scepter-cle.html
Germanic vs. Norman roots?

]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5650 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:58:06 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5637/t/tarricide-.html
www.thebostonchannel.com/...etail.html

]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5637 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:10:24 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5656/t/cakewalk.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5656 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:50:32 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5653/t/OT-UBlish-anthems.html I was given to understand that "God Save the Queen" is the national anthem of the UK, and that "Land of Hope and Glory" is the anthem of England.

EIther I am as mad as a monkey, or I have heard LOHAG sung as the anthem for the England team in football matches.

Now I hear GSTG being performed as the official anthem at the RWC.

Help me out, UBlanders. Has there been a change in policy? Have I got it completely wrong? Am I as mad as a monkey? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (OP Tipping) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5653 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:40:59 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5645/t/setting-one-s-cap.html feeds@yuku.com (larrysommers(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5645 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:36:26 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5640/t/origin-of-the-Filipino-word-quot-Parol-quot-.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5640 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:54:59 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5638/t/finickity-pernickety.html feeds@yuku.com (ElizaD) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5638 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:44:47 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5659/t/undertaker.html
Is it "undertaking" the work of preparing a body for burial, or is it "taking [the body?] under" [ground?]?

Just another euphemism from the US? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5659 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:35:33 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5661/t/torpedo.html The modern contact-fused land mine is, sad to say, an American invention from the Civil War. Actually, early versions were used before the war against Indians.
The name then was 'torpedo', which is said to derive from 'torpid', probably because the device sat and waited... and waited. (The torpedos of 'damn the torpedos' fame were mines)
Obviously the word 'torpedo' has changed meaning over... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (xsjsx) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5661 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:24:43 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5642/t/As-right-as-ninepence.html
It comes as a 19th century annotation to the peerless 17th century satire on Puritanism, Butler's poem Hudibras.

"Until the year 1696, when all money, not milled, was called in, a ninepenny piece of silver was as common as sixpences or shillings, and these ninepences were usually bent as sixpences commonly are now, which bending was called, To my love and from my love; and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5642 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:28:23 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5652/t/whingeing-bout-hingeing.html
Flanging...flangeing...binging...bingeing....sponging...spongeing....

I must admit, none of them look right!

]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/5652 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:01:20 GMT