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Hmm, that tell-me-a-song meme has taken over my friends page :/ And I don't like it because I can never think of any answers.
My digestive system doesn't like me this week. :6
More from my forgotten English calender:
Today is the birthday of Charles Lindbergh (1902-74), pioneering American aviator who was dubbed the Lone Eagle. In May 1927 he became the first person to fly nonstop and solo from New York to Paris, in his specially built monoplane the Spirit of St Louis. On his way home afterwards he stopped in several countries, the last one being England. At the invitation of George V he visited Buckingham Palace, where the king asked him many questions about his long flight, including one he felt could only be asked in private: "Sir, how did you pee?"
And from the next page, which covers both Saturday and Sunday (comments by me are in square brackets):
Birthday of Eric Honeywood [that is a cool middle name] Patridge (1894-1979) [they don't say whether it was the 5th or the 6th that was his birthday], noted New Zealand-born lexicographer, who often focused on slang and word "abusage," as he liked to call it. Along with verbs that had been converted into legitimate-sounding nouns through the application of the suffix -age, for example wreckage, leakage, and cleavage, he cited nouns that had received artificial prestige via that appendage, sucah as parentage, signage, and Shakespeare's baggage [I have heard it said that Shakespeare invented two thirds of the English language]. But some now ludicrous-sounding barbarisms had already fallen by the wayside, including eatage, fruitage, vagabondage, dumpage, and floatage. Other obsolete examples include rivage (a river bank), umpirage (an umpire's power), concubinage and whorage (dens of ill-repute) [XD I love the way they call them "dens of ill-repute." Yeah, that'll be a brothel then, right?], imposturage (an imposter's actions), teacherage [teacherage!!] (a home for teachers), stumpage (logging rights), flobbage [FLOBBAGE!!!!] (phlegm), lactage (dairy products), pontage and muirage (taxes for building bridges and walls, respectively), and fardage (army equipment). Mercifully we English speakers were spared the likes of burglage, shrubbage, and scenage.
My digestive system doesn't like me this week. :6
More from my forgotten English calender:
Today is the birthday of Charles Lindbergh (1902-74), pioneering American aviator who was dubbed the Lone Eagle. In May 1927 he became the first person to fly nonstop and solo from New York to Paris, in his specially built monoplane the Spirit of St Louis. On his way home afterwards he stopped in several countries, the last one being England. At the invitation of George V he visited Buckingham Palace, where the king asked him many questions about his long flight, including one he felt could only be asked in private: "Sir, how did you pee?"
And from the next page, which covers both Saturday and Sunday (comments by me are in square brackets):
Birthday of Eric Honeywood [that is a cool middle name] Patridge (1894-1979) [they don't say whether it was the 5th or the 6th that was his birthday], noted New Zealand-born lexicographer, who often focused on slang and word "abusage," as he liked to call it. Along with verbs that had been converted into legitimate-sounding nouns through the application of the suffix -age, for example wreckage, leakage, and cleavage, he cited nouns that had received artificial prestige via that appendage, sucah as parentage, signage, and Shakespeare's baggage [I have heard it said that Shakespeare invented two thirds of the English language]. But some now ludicrous-sounding barbarisms had already fallen by the wayside, including eatage, fruitage, vagabondage, dumpage, and floatage. Other obsolete examples include rivage (a river bank), umpirage (an umpire's power), concubinage and whorage (dens of ill-repute) [XD I love the way they call them "dens of ill-repute." Yeah, that'll be a brothel then, right?], imposturage (an imposter's actions), teacherage [teacherage!!] (a home for teachers), stumpage (logging rights), flobbage [FLOBBAGE!!!!] (phlegm), lactage (dairy products), pontage and muirage (taxes for building bridges and walls, respectively), and fardage (army equipment). Mercifully we English speakers were spared the likes of burglage, shrubbage, and scenage.