R-Cubed, MotD, and WWftD - Fri. 25SEP09
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Today, Fri. 25SEP09
Road Rage Remedy: Rusalka: O moon high up "Song to the moon" by Antonín Dvorák
March of the Day: Mars der Medici by Johan Wichers
The Worthless Word for the Day: slangwhanger
[fr. slangwhang, to assail with abuse] chiefly U.S. a noisy or abusive talker or writer; a ranting partisan
"These knights, denominated editors, or slang-whangers, are appointed in every town, village, or district, to carry on both foreign and internal warfare, and may be said to keep up a constant firing 'in words'." - Washington Irving, Salmagundi (1807)
"Slangwhanger was used in 1807 by Irving for a bitterly partisan political journalist, but by the time of Pickering's Vocabulary (1816) it had come to mean also a demagogic orator." - H. L. Mencken, The American Language (1948)
"He went without saying that the cull disliked anything anyway approaching a plain straightforward standup or knockdown row and, as often as he was called in to umpire any octagonal argument among slangwhangers, the accomplished washout always used to rub shoulders with the last speaker and clasp shakers (the handtouch which is speech without words) and agree to every word as soon as half uttered..." - James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake (1939)
"Both politicians [Lincoln & Douglas] used the same slangwhanging style that Rice employed, and both told ribald jokes." - David Carlyon, Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of (2001)
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Today, Fri. 25SEP09
Road Rage Remedy: Rusalka: O moon high up "Song to the moon" by Antonín Dvorák
March of the Day: Mars der Medici by Johan Wichers
The Worthless Word for the Day: slangwhanger
[fr. slangwhang, to assail with abuse] chiefly U.S. a noisy or abusive talker or writer; a ranting partisan
"These knights, denominated editors, or slang-whangers, are appointed in every town, village, or district, to carry on both foreign and internal warfare, and may be said to keep up a constant firing 'in words'." - Washington Irving, Salmagundi (1807)
"Slangwhanger was used in 1807 by Irving for a bitterly partisan political journalist, but by the time of Pickering's Vocabulary (1816) it had come to mean also a demagogic orator." - H. L. Mencken, The American Language (1948)
"He went without saying that the cull disliked anything anyway approaching a plain straightforward standup or knockdown row and, as often as he was called in to umpire any octagonal argument among slangwhangers, the accomplished washout always used to rub shoulders with the last speaker and clasp shakers (the handtouch which is speech without words) and agree to every word as soon as half uttered..." - James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake (1939)
"Both politicians [Lincoln & Douglas] used the same slangwhanging style that Rice employed, and both told ribald jokes." - David Carlyon, Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of (2001)