Blague
BLAGUE
Humbug, hoax, pretence; [from] nineteenth-century French.
-C. A. M. Fennell's The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases, 1964
To tell lies.
-Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1888
First Shots of the Revolution?
As American schoolchildren learn, the nation's War of Independence began in earnest just after Paul Revere's Boston-to-Lexington ride of April 18, 1775. But Newcastle, New Hampshire, claims to have been where the very first "shots heard 'round the world" had been fired four months earlier, on December 14, 1774. In 1936 a Newcastle town selectman wrote to the chairman of the Constitutional Sesquicentennial Commission:
The town of Newcastle will be pleased to have you visit and see the exact spot at Fort Constitution-formerly Fort William and Mary-where the first shot of the revolution was fired.But until a poet of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's stature composes compelling heroic verse about New Hampshire's early potshots at the Redcoats, Lexington and Concord will likely remain the birthplace of the American Revolution.
from: Jeffrey Kacirk's Forgotten English 2006 Calendar
Humbug, hoax, pretence; [from] nineteenth-century French.
-C. A. M. Fennell's The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases, 1964
To tell lies.
-Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1888
First Shots of the Revolution?
As American schoolchildren learn, the nation's War of Independence began in earnest just after Paul Revere's Boston-to-Lexington ride of April 18, 1775. But Newcastle, New Hampshire, claims to have been where the very first "shots heard 'round the world" had been fired four months earlier, on December 14, 1774. In 1936 a Newcastle town selectman wrote to the chairman of the Constitutional Sesquicentennial Commission:
The town of Newcastle will be pleased to have you visit and see the exact spot at Fort Constitution-formerly Fort William and Mary-where the first shot of the revolution was fired.But until a poet of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's stature composes compelling heroic verse about New Hampshire's early potshots at the Redcoats, Lexington and Concord will likely remain the birthplace of the American Revolution.
from: Jeffrey Kacirk's Forgotten English 2006 Calendar