I should apologize in advance if these details pull this thread too far away from a discussion of the meaning of "hoodwink." I'm not arguing about women's fashions of the 16th and 17th centuries, but I've found some information which may be interesting. I know little about the history of c...

Dr. Beard says: ...Today's word is a compound noun that seems to have strayed off its original meaning. Actually, only the meaning of 'wink' has lost its bearings. In 1562, questions like this were posed: "Will you enforce women to hoodwink themselves in the church?" So 'to hoodwink' origi...

How's this for a font-related site? Seems pretty rootin'-tootin' good to me:

http://ilovetypography.com/

Jeff Hook

I never expected to see the word humanist applied to a font. I always had far too many fonts "on deck" (>600, I think, before I moved most of them out of the active folder) so I was well aware of the existence of a large "Humanist Font Family." I often saw the name while I scrol...

I'm enjoying the Troi Bechet MySpace audio clips.

Sluggo: You da NOLA man to suggest "Creole" in the Goodword Suggestion forum. I searched the site and didn't find any evidence that our good doctor had enlightened us about this important word.

Jeff Hook

Yeah, you could probably have asked "Roxie," who might be a "thug's consort," or "Kittie," proprietress of the "Flash in the Pan" saloon... Then there's always "Rosie the Riveter"... Hmmm... I was thinking along different lines... "Somebody, hel...

More than a generation ago during my boyhood in the NYC-influenced part of NJ I often heard older adults use "moxie." They used this word with the same irony and whimsy which they used with Yiddish expressions, and I always assumed "moxie" was Yiddish. I was surprised to learn it...

Nah, this ain't "work," it's just fun! My comments in this thread were composed right here on the screen. I "did my research" in my browser, limited as it was, and I just pasted portions of it to this thread, so this was a "one-step" contribution. (I'd usually create a ...

I'm not sure about the identity of the author of the blog from which I obtained the above text and image. He may be Richard Lyall, but time's limited and I've not been able to find a clear statement of his identity. He also provides this image on the same blog page which I cited. He may have created...

Right. I thought at first that I'd erred, and that this snapshot showed "an open dungeon room,"
rather than "a true oubliette." Then I realized that all we can see of the oubliette is its iron grate in the floor of this "oubliette anteroom." Wow.

Jeff Hook

This is taken from a religious blog. I'm not trying to proselytize. This was the best photo in the first few pages of Google Images responses and I thought it was appropriate to let the photographer set the context: http://craftycurate.blogs.com/pilgrims_progress/2005/07/the_cry_of_the_.html « Fully...

The "Trebuchet" name's been used for a clear, sharp-edged, sans-serif, True-Type personal computer font. Wikipedia says the name was taken from the medieval siege engine but I wonder about Wikipedia's explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet_MS ...Trebuchet MS is a humanist sans...

It looks like "didactic" got a bad rep unfairly. It seems to have started out well enough in Greek: +++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.bartleby.com/61/93/D0209300.html didactic VARIANT FORMS: also di·dac·ti·cal (-t-kl) ADJECTIVE: 1. Intended to instruct. 2. Morally instructive. 3. Inclined...

Thanks, Sluggo.

Jeff Hook

(PS: These forums can be "addictive," can't they?! Wow! What a "blow-out"! "I gotta getta grip"! It's time for me to sit on the sidelines for a while!)

I don't know what I was thinking or if I even was thinking when I suggested I'd work up a terse final comment about the challenging topics which have been introduced here. I don't have the knowledge or the understanding which I'd need to be able to contribute any such comments. I'd like to thank Mar...