As for the book, sorry, Slava, I did not see your post on the next page before I posted mine (have to learn the site yet, and turning the page is one thing to learn.) The sheep is for me, Beck? How THOUGHTFUL OF YOU, though I don't know what I did to deserve it. This being cattle country and all. As...

Beck, the book can be found on Amazon. Just Google
in the title. Amazon's cost is $13.95. I put it on wish
list.

That's good. It was a new one on me.

I think one will find it spelled both ways, actually, now that
you mention it. But I've always used the double d's.
Sort of like butter: which is it? Pat of butter, or pad?
I 've seen both, and remain confused.
Needless to say, the butter and the paddie cum cow, have
different texture and odor.

I got a good laugh out of that one. Needed a good laugh
today: appreciate it.

Thank you very much. I like it!

What a curious word. One that I've never heard before. I often wonder how many days I've lived that were adiaphorous? Often in "cop" shows, the police ask a perp: where were you on Tuesday last, at 9 PM? I don't know if I could answer many of those: how adiaphorous, the time made no impres...

I find it very interesting that you say French is Latin as spoken in France today. It is a Romance language, true, and a descendant of Latin, but to call it that is quite a statement that I have never seen before. Very interesting. Would you say the same concerning Romanian, Italian, Spanish, or Por...

I've been to many an Irish "wake" and it was never
"funereal". And the funeral/memorial service
distinction is really important.

Yes, Garkon is hard to take.
How does one set the keyboard up to find the
cedilla?? I am not very computer savvy and would
appreciate the knowledge.

And I was just reading your post of years ago. I too find myself correcting spelling, especially. I enjoy watching the banner across the bottom of News programs. All the mis-spellings there are enough to gag a real lover of words. In books - which I venerate with great awe - I will still correct in ...

To say nothing of Knick-Knack (carwichet implied.)

Regarding pall: another use of the term. In Roman Liturgy, especially prior to the 60's, the priest would clean his vessels at the end of the mass. Placing the paten upon the chalice with cloth napkin(purificator) between. Atop the paten was placed a square linen-covered cardboard, over which was dr...

Word I ran into today: It’s a fine old American slang term for a jail, still widely known today. Most people would connect it with the nineteenth-century cowboys of the Wild West. It’s very likely that they knew the word, but it didn’t start to be written down until the early twentieth century. The ...

A word I see associated with some of you: It is "Dictionary.com" 's word for the day: panjandrum \pan-JAN-druhm\, noun: An important personage or pretentious official. Needless to say, when governors and ministers and the panjandrums of British public life asked these appointed advisers an...