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phrase of the day:
oft and gelome
meaning, literally, "often and again."
i do like wulfstan. i have no idea how he was as an orator, but as a writer he knows his onions. (i'm not sure i care for his message -- the sermo lupi ad anglos has the ring of jerry fallwell about it, lots of "the danes are sacking us and winning because this place is full of sinners," but that's neither here nor there.)
[i think my neighbor is making blueberry waffles. or, more likely, blueberry muffins, because i bet i wouldn't be able to smell something from her toaster all the way over here.]
edited to add:
word of the day: eala, 'alas.' say it out loud; there should be macrons on the e and the second a, which just means they last a little longer. EH-a-LAH. doesn't that sound like a sound of woe and despair to you? oh, it's wonderful.
meaning, literally, "often and again."
i do like wulfstan. i have no idea how he was as an orator, but as a writer he knows his onions. (i'm not sure i care for his message -- the sermo lupi ad anglos has the ring of jerry fallwell about it, lots of "the danes are sacking us and winning because this place is full of sinners," but that's neither here nor there.)
[i think my neighbor is making blueberry waffles. or, more likely, blueberry muffins, because i bet i wouldn't be able to smell something from her toaster all the way over here.]
edited to add:
word of the day: eala, 'alas.' say it out loud; there should be macrons on the e and the second a, which just means they last a little longer. EH-a-LAH. doesn't that sound like a sound of woe and despair to you? oh, it's wonderful.
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I remember when a friend of mine was taking some early English/Anglo Saxon lit course. One of the things they studied was a list of proverbs and one of the proverbs was "wax is wonderous sticky." It was funny enough translated, but in the original it kept us in stitches.