Word of the day

cj · Post by cj » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:39 pm

The exaggerated mouth movements are excellent for keeping one's youthful facial features apparently. So, get singing everyone!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:18 am

cj wrote:Matins is lovely as a sung service (on a par with sung evensong? There's a debate!) with some gorgeous settings of the canticles, the Benedicite and Jubilate.

Always liked choral evensong... but Compline in the chapel was always special...

eloisec · Post by **eloisec** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:16 am

except the melted candle wax on your uniform. took ages to get off

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:38 am

An odd little word today:

pirk

â€¢ noun a metal weight fitted with a hook, used as a lure for sea fishing.

â€” origin perhaps a variant of perch.

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:21 am

eloisec wrote:except the melted candle wax on your uniform. took ages to get off

I just used to spill it onto the compine books!

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:37 am

This one sounds good :

scramasax

â€¢ noun a large knife with a single-edged blade found among the grave goods in many Anglo-Saxon burials. Such knives were used in hunting and fighting.

â€” origin mid 19th cent.: of Germanic origin.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:34 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:This one sounds good :

scramasax

â€¢ noun a large knife with a single-edged blade found among the grave goods in many Anglo-Saxon burials. Such knives were used in hunting and fighting.

â€” origin mid 19th cent.: of Germanic origin.

............. and I thought it meant throwing a saxophone out of a window !!

cj · Post by cj » Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:24 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:This one sounds good :

scramasax

â€¢ noun a large knife with a single-edged blade found among the grave goods in many Anglo-Saxon burials. Such knives were used in hunting and fighting.

â€” origin mid 19th cent.: of Germanic origin.

I'm not sure I came across any 19th century, Anglo-Saxon burials when I was studying Archaeology. Must have missed that lecture!

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:43 am

The word is from the 19th. Century, not the burials!

I presume they were just called 'knives' before then......

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:49 am

Richard Ruck wrote:The word is from the 19th. Century, not the burials!

I presume they were just called 'knives' before then......

And I thought it was only JR who didn't get irony

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:11 pm

I do - it's like bronzey and goldy......(with apologies to Baldrick).

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:18 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:I do - it's like bronzey and goldy......(with apologies to Baldrick).

When I laughed out loud at your response my son asked me what I was laughing at, so I went back to 'Scramasax' and he said "it's a knife".

Does anyone have a job for a smart-arse 20-uear-old with no qualifications, not even a GCSE? (Seriously)

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:23 pm

Is he currently a 'jobseeker', then?

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:30 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:Is he currently a 'jobseeker', then?

Yes.

cj · Post by cj » Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:49 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:The word is from the 19th. Century, not the burials!

I presume they were just called 'knives' before then......

Oh, duh, I get it.