http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=225 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=225&cpage=1#comment-150710 Eileen McKinnon Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:15:15 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=225#comment-150710 Wait, one more detail: the word toity is child-speak, I believe, for going potty. In David Mamet's play Speed the Plough, one char says "You just went toity on my whole life." This is on p 89 of the hardcover version. Eileen Wait, one more detail: the word toity is child-speak, I believe, for going potty. In David Mamet’s play Speed the Plough, one char says “You just went toity on my whole life.” This is on p 89 of the hardcover version.
Eileen

]]> http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=225&cpage=1#comment-150708 Eileen McKinnon Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:09:44 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=225#comment-150708 A whole psychological inquiry on this subject was done by Freud in his paper 'The Archetypal Meanings (Senses?) of Primal Words" in his multi-volume Collected Works. That title may be slightly incorrect. It's been a long time. Also Philip Roth laments somewhere that hoi polloi was used routinely--and wrongly--in his family home to mean the elite nobility. Can't recall which book. Cheers, Eileen McKinnon A whole psychological inquiry on this subject was done by Freud in his paper ‘The Archetypal Meanings (Senses?) of Primal Words” in his multi-volume Collected Works. That title may be slightly incorrect. It’s been a long time. Also Philip Roth laments somewhere that hoi polloi was used routinely–and wrongly–in his family home to mean the elite nobility. Can’t recall which book.
Cheers,
Eileen McKinnon

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