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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 2:28 pm
by J.R.
............and didn't he take Grace in the Dining Hall in our day, David ?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 5:20 pm
by sejintenej
J.R. wrote:............and didn't he take Grace in the Dining Hall in our day, David ?
I was about to write that he was head of the RAF section of the CCF (but RAF became FAF as in FAF about with gliders on the rgby pitches behind Coleridge).
Yes, he was the gavel man.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 6:16 pm
by Mid A 15
J.R. wrote:............and didn't he take Grace in the Dining Hall in our day, David ?
and mine!
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:38 am
by Richard Ruck
It's Monday - oh joy!
Right, back to religious matters today:
rav
• noun (Judaism) - a rabbi, especially one who holds a position of authority or who acts as a personal mentor. [partly via Yiddish.]
• (Rav) (in orthodox Judaism) a title of respect and form of address preceding a personal name..
— origin from Hebrew and Aramaic rab ‘master’.
Like Rab C. Nesbitt, then.....
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:43 am
by cj
Are ravs related to chavs?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 5:56 pm
by J.R.
cj wrote:Are ravs related to chavs?
I think they are Jewish Chav's !
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 8:32 am
by Richard Ruck
In a similar vein:
hierarch
• noun - a chief priest, archbishop, or other leader.
— origin late Middle English : via medieval Latin from Greek hierarkhes, from hieros ‘sacred’ + arkhes ‘ruler’.
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 8:34 pm
by midget
This reminds me of work (at DHSS) On one occasion I had to visit a Greek Orthodox bishop, and explain that the person who had made the appointment could not be there because he was Jewish, and had failed to remember that it was Yom Kippur. He didn't mind himself about working, but he claimed his mother would kill him if he did.
He also claimed that Jewish momma jokes are all based on his mother.
Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:43 am
by Richard Ruck
Sorry to insult everyone's intelligence with this one, but those nice people at the OED feel that it's worthy of 'Word of the Day' status :
blitzkrieg
• noun a - n intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.
— origin Second World War : from German, literally ‘lightning war’.
Also the inspiration for one of the finest songs by The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop.
Hey ho, let's go.....
Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 8:27 am
by Richard Ruck
playa
• noun - an area of flat, dried-up land, especially a desert basin from which water evaporates quickly.
— origin mid 19th cent. : from Spanish, literally ‘beach’, from late Latin plagia.
Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 12:05 pm
by Great Plum
Nothing to do with players then?
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:26 am
by Richard Ruck
Back after a brief interlude.....
tekke
• noun (pl. tekkes) - a monastery of dervishes, especially in Ottoman Turkey.
— origin Turkish.
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:02 pm
by J.R.
Richard Ruck wrote:Back after a brief interlude.....
tekke
• noun (pl. tekkes) - a monastery of dervishes, especially in Ottoman Turkey.
— origin Turkish.
Well, that was worth a
WHIRL, Richard !
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:33 am
by Richard Ruck
J.R. wrote: Well, that was worth a WHIRL, Richard !
Oh dear!
Well, here's today's:
querencia
•
noun - the part of a bullring where the bull takes its stand.
— origin Spanish, literally ‘lair, home ground’, from
querer ‘desire, love’, from Latin
quaerere ‘seek’.
Not part of my culture, I know, but I do find it hard to understand why people take pleasure in (or even tolerate) the spectacle of animals being tormented for 'sport'............
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:33 am
by Richard Ruck
One of my favourite words today:
sackbut
• noun - an early form of trombone used in Renaissance music.
— origin late 15th cent. : from French saquebute, from obsolete saqueboute ‘hook for pulling a man off a horse’, from saquer ‘to pull’ + bouter ‘to hit’.