"Quhone I awoyk, my dreme it wes so nyce, Fra everie wicht I hid it as a vyce."
    - William Dunbar, Poems 1500-20 (see OED defn. "nice ( Read more... )

It was... Kaze, I think... *rummages around* Wait no Aha, yes it was! Only on her writing journal.

Anyway, Kaze has this awesome icon, only she apparently doesn't know who made it, and I didn't want to just take it, so I thought I'd make my own. Which meant tracking down the quote. Which was difficult, because it's constantly misquoted and ( Read more... )

Aaagh, I have forgotten SO MANY KANJI it's scary. Two weeks from yesterday I go back (although there's another two weeks until classes start) and I just go 'buh' at far too many of these. Not good ( Read more... )

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Terrorist, n.
    1. As a political term: Any one who attempts to further his views by a system of coercive intimidation.

(In early use also applied spec. to members of one of the extreme revolutionary societies in Russia. The term now usually refers to a member of a clandestine or expatriate ( Read more... )

I found this place, lost it, and found it again, and now I'm not going to let go.

Right. Homework.

And yes, I have spoken London English before, and it's not the same as Posh whatsoever. So nah.

So I was reading a book and I came across the words "Turnham Green" came up. And I'm like Yay! Turnham Green!

Doesn't mean much to anyone, I know, but it was the name of the tube stop near our first house in England. It shows up less often than Oldenborg, but elicits about the same response from me.