January 2008
38 posts
Billy Ray Valentine
Billy Ray: Merry New Year!
Beeks: That's "happy." In this country we say "Happy New Year."
Billy Ray: Oh, ho, ho, thank you for correcting my English which stinks!
New Year's, n.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1845 Knickerbocker 25 128 Stay away on New-Year’s and you stay away all the year.
December 2007
59 posts
hogmanay: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: c1680 [see b].
The cup that is typically empty is filling with water in the AC closet. The ‘emergency maintenance’ guy is at dinner off site and actually called me to tell me this. The good news is that he will look at the unit inside, the bad news is that if the problem is with the outside unit, it will have to wait till tomorrow. All night with no AC is something I don’t like but I’ve...
weakness: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: a1300 Cursor M. 27054 Botes thre, Quar-wit {th}at we mai strenghed be. {Th}e first for waikenes of vr fa {Th}at qua-sum will mai were him fra.
legendary, a. and n.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1513 BRADSHAW St. Werburge I. 2586 Amonge her systers all She caused to be redde..The swete legendary, for a memoryall.
rhapsody, n.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1542 UDALL Erasm. Apoph. 76 The grammarians in olde tyme spent moste of their studie and were moste famyliare in the rhapsodies of Homerus.
upstanding, ppl. a.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 332 Aho on upstandende twi{asg}.
Boxing-day: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1833 in A. MATHEWS Mem. C. Mathews (1839) IV. viii. 173 To the completion of his dismay, he arrives in London on boxing-day.
@leolaporte Merry Christmas, Leo!
Christmas-tree: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1835 A. J. KEMPE in Loseley MSS. 75 We remember a German of the household of the late Queen Caroline, making what he termed a Christmas tree for a juvenile party.
Santa Claus: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1773 N.Y. Gaz. 26 Dec. 3/1 Last Monday the Anniversary of St. Nicholas, otherwise called St. A Claus, was celebrated at Protestant-Hall.
noscitur a sociis, phr.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1749 H. FIELDING Tom Jones I. III. ii. 157 The Wit of them all may be comprised in that short Latin proverb, ‘Noscitur a socio’; which, I think, is thus expressed in English, ‘You may know him by the Company he keeps.’
Poincare, n.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1904 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 255 (heading) Proof of Poincare’s Theorem.
Majorana, n.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1938 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 166 524 The interaction is therefore just of the required form consisting of Heisenberg and Majorana forces of the right sign so as to allow one to make the triplet state of the deuteron the lowest stable state.
Nassanoff, n.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1953 Proc. Royal Soc. 1952-3 B. 140 57 It seems likely that covering the Nasanov gland did not completely suppress the odour.
The calendar says it’s Wednesday. My brain wants it to be Thursday.
What’s the deal with people saying stuff like: A big shot reviewed my comics or I like buying my friends software and giving no more details
merchandise, v.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Luke xix. 13 And he seide..’Marchaundise {ygh}e [L. negotiamini] til I come.’
@pvponline who would that be?
edge-ways, -wise: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1566 in Peacock Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 73 Alter stones ij{em}one is broke..thother yet standeth edgewaie in the grownd.
plunk, v.1: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1808 A. SCOTT Poems 229 Let Europe plunk her fiddle strings, Till them to unison she brings.
Deathly Hallows
The book has been out for a while. It’s been over four months and still no Deathly Hallows on iTunes. What’s the deal? It isn’t Audible, as Leo claims. It is Learning Library, which is a Random House publication IIRC. I really don’t care which publishing house gets it up there, as long as it happens eventually.
macromodelling | macromodeling, n.: OED Word of... →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1968 Lebende Sprachen 13 38/3 Cybernetics might be described as focusing on the macro-modeling of the processes involved in self-communicating information-feedback and adaptive performance-modification that characterize the more complex behaviors of animals and machines.
droop, v.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: a1300 Cursor M. 16064 Iesus stode als a lambe, His hefde druppand [v. rr. drupand, droupande] dun.
Watch01-18-2008 Spoiler Warning: This is five uninterrupted minutes of the movie. There will be spoilers.
monochromatic, adj. and n.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1822 D. BREWSTER in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 9 437 The Monochromatic Lamp being thus completed, I lost no time in applying it to the illumination of Microscopic objects.
Narguls Vindicated
The Nargul community celebrated today when the disk that went missing was found in the wrong holder. The person responsible for the misplacement could not be reached for comment.
Disc or Disk
Or does it really matter?
Disk Has Gone Missing
A disk for one of my game consoles has gone missing. I have looked everywhere and have not found it. I suspect Narguls are behind it.
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Bush’s New Dentist Faces Tough Confirmation HearingWASHINGTON—Democrats were wary of the nomination, stating that America needs someone who will not blindly accept it as fact when told Mr. Bush flosses daily…
perfective, adj. and n.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1596 BACON Elem. Common Lawes (1636) I. xiv. 59 This enrolment is no new act, but a perfective ceremony of the first deed of bargaine and sale.
Why the heck is this keyboard $150?
http://matias.ca/tactilepro2/index.php
overexpressed, adj.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1959 N. MAILER Advts. for Myself (1961) 17, I am not suited for this sort of confrontation despite..a bloody season of overexpressed personal opinions as a newspaper columnist.
visiting, vbl. n.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: a1300 Cursor M. 6189 Ioseph..praid {th}e folk and badd {Th}at quen godd sent {th}aim visiting, {Th}ai suld his banes {th}e{th}en bring.
I found a Wii Zapper and I’m afraid it will be going back to the store. First, it doesn’t fit my hand. Second, it seems to take away functionality from the Wiimote by itself. That’s enough to make me want to return it.
olive branch, n.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 1904 An oliue branche in moth sco broght.
unattended, ppl. a.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1603 DRAYTON Bar. Wars V. xxiv, Car’d for of none, nor look’d on, vnattended, Sadly returning, with a heauie Heart.
I need to find a Wii Zapper attachment. It would make Umbrella Chronicles much more fun.
As much as I say I see it from their perspective, I won’t be boycotting iTunes any time soon. The other option is BT, even worse for writers
The more I read about the writer’s strike, the more I see it from their perspective. Thanks to Joss for his eloquent way of explaining it.
Waiting for 5:00.
relict, n.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1535 LYNDESAY Satyre 2231 Cum, win my pardon; and kiss my relicts, to.
nutty, adj.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: a1450 (?c1421) LYDGATE Siege Thebes (Arun.) 110 Strong notty [c1460 Laud 416 noppy; a1500 Laud 557 notti] ale wol make {ygh}ou to route.
parse, v.: OED Word of the Day →
Today’s word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: a1568 R. ASCHAM Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 1v, Let the childe, by and by, both construe and parse it ouer againe.
and that should have gone to Hotdogsladies