Meme!

[arabwel]

1.Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5.Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest."The Ents awoke at the same trime as the

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[starsystems]

heh. I got this: "Now what would suit me best would be a general spell cast over Lincolnshire so that three or four thousand young men would all at once be filled with a lively desire to become soldiers and fight the French." He looked at Sir Walter rather wistfully. "Would your friend know of such a spell, Sir Walter, do you think?"

:3 From Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

[arabwel]

I really need to rwead that book sometime soon :D

[redcoast]

I got this: "Etymologically, cohort is an 'enclosed yard.' It comes via Old French cohorte from Lain cohors, a compoun noun formed from the prefix com- 'with' and an element hort- which also appears in Latin hortus 'garden' (source of English horticulture) and is related to English garden, yard, and the second element of orchard. From the underlying sense of 'enclosed place' it came to be applied to a crowd of people in such a place, and then more specifically to an infantry company in the Roman army."

Dictionar of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words.

[arabwel]

ooooh, yay for knowing that! I love shin useless information! :D

.. and now I wonder if I would ever be in a situation where knowing that would be USEFUL...

[redcoast]

I read etymological dictionaries for fun, and it's useful when I'm creating languages ... which I tend to go overboard while doing.

[arabwel]

That is tryue.. i was thinking more RL-useful than writingtastically useful...