It's true that these are not run-of-the-mill, most of them, unless you're a seminarian. Which I'm not (there's a special glass cage for me to enter when I deliver flowers).
Obscure though they are, it's the differences between and among some that have focused a good deal of our common history.
Pick a word -- any word -- and it's likely some man will either gamble on its meaning for drinks or start a fight?
Ads have appeared linked to this blog for sales of anti-Obama material. I have been unsuccessful in getting 'systems satisfaction' to bar such linkage.
Any clueless machine-association between any of my opinions and those of the political right wing are utterly coincidental and strenuously eschewed.
Oh dear! I had to look up most of them!
ReplyDeleteIt's true that these are not run-of-the-mill, most of them, unless you're a seminarian. Which I'm not (there's a special glass cage for me to enter when I deliver flowers).
ReplyDeleteObscure though they are, it's the differences between and among some that have focused a good deal of our common history.
Pick a word -- any word -- and it's likely some man will either gamble on its meaning for drinks or start a fight?
No doubt. The consequences of Henry VIII's schism with the Roman Catholic Church are still felt on a daily basis in the British Isles.
ReplyDeleteWhat a collection to delight the ears and tongue...
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