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Sunday, September 20, 2015

About Science…XXIX

Yes, boys and girls, it’s Sunday once again – the day for Sunday School that you look forward to with eagerness or trepidation, or maybe even with eager trepidation if you’re masochistically inclined, LOL – but I shouldn’t use words like that here, should I… First I need to answer a question that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 18, 2015

Forgotten English…26

Oh, I’ll be looking for one of these later this afternoon… birkenshaw A sunny place of all kinds of brushwood – a poet’s country. There they roam unseen among the Birks and yellow broom, and tune their pipes… John Mactaggart’s Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824 *** Maybe I’ll even hear the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 14, 2015

About Science…XXVIII

Well, Good Morning once again - or Good Day to those of you boys and girls who are trundling in late, LOL… Of course I’m late too – it’s Monday instead of Sunday – but I’m sure you are happy you were allowed to sleep in yesterday, LOL… First an observation about something in the story from Blinky,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 13, 2015

A Response to Pat…

Our Pat has a post called Jumping to Conclusions. I read it, began to comment, realized that my comment would be too lengthy and decided to respond this way, since it's worth responding to. She touches on three issues that are at least analytically separate…And keep in mind – this is just a post –... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015

Forgotten English…25

My, how terribly deceitful and underhanded they were – they employed a… rush-ring A custom extremely hurtful to the interests of morality prevailed both in England and other countries of marrying with a “rush-ring”, chiefly practiced, however, by designing men for the purpose of debauching their... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 10, 2015

Forgotten English…24

Would you care for some of it? samzruddled Of food, boiled to rags; Cornwall. Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary, 1896-1905 I didn’t think so – I can’t imagine anyone hankering after anything ‘boiled to rags’... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

About Science…XXVII – An Intermezzo

Imagine a planet Blinky, part of the planetary system of the Star Glomp. It’s within our Milky Way, so it’s pretty close, only 50,000 light years away… Imagine that the Beings on Blinky are really, really advanced; and that at this moment of our ‘now’ (and for this purpose all our ‘nows’ on Earth... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Forgotten English…23

I hope you’ll be more careful with your vows… isabelline A pale brownish-yellow colour; from Isabelle, a queen or princess of this name. Charles Annandale’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1897 This colour is a whitish yellow, a little soiled…The Archduke Albertus, who had married the infant... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 6, 2015

About Science…XXVI

Hello, boys and girls! Today is? – Raaaght – Sunday! And it’s Sunday School again! Nice to see a few of you again, even if the numbers are small – the usual Saturday night debauchery, I assume… But let’s get on with it… As I have told you, when physicists go about their physics business, they no... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 4, 2015

Forgotten English…22

As far as I am concerned, this one can remain forgotten… nidorosity “Eructation, with the taste of undigested roast meat.” Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828 “[From] nidor, steam or scent from food while being cooked; [related to] nidorous, resembling the taste of burnt... Sign in to see full entry.

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