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Nuptial-- the past part. of the latin nubere, to marry: (the root word comes into english as NUBILE)
but Wed, goes back to back to OE, weddian to pledge, to engage, and weddian seem to go back to an IE base of *wadh, to pledge, to redeem a pledge.(didn't look it up, but i wonder what other words share this root.)
but there is also Marry, and expressions like tie the knot and less savory ones a ball and chain!
As old and as vernerated a tradition as marriage, must have more words... and then there are all the ancillary words, like bride and groom, and troth...
and should efforts fail, there is always D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Jamie, Harry, Friends There's just a few more hours.
That's all the time you've got. A few more hours
Before they tie the knot. Doolittle
There are drinks and girls all over London,
and I've gotta track 'em down in just a few more hours!
I'm getting married in the morning! Ding dong!
The bells are gonna chime. Pull out the stopper!
Let's have a whopper! But get me to the church on time!
I gotta be there in the mornin'
Spruced up and lookin' in me prime.
Girls, come and kiss me;
Show how you'll miss me.
But get me to the church on time!
If I am dancin' Roll up the floor.
If I am whistlin' Whewt me out the door!
For I'm gettin' married in the mornin'
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Kick up an rumpus But don't lost the compass;
And get me to the church, Get me to the church,
For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!
Doolittle and Everyone I'm getting married in the morning
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Doolittle Drug me or jail me, Stamp me and mail me.
All But get me to the church on time!
I gotta be there in the morning
Spruced up and lookin' in me prime.
Doolittle Some bloke who's able Lift up the table,
All And get em to the church on time!
Doolittle If I am flying Then shoot me down.
If I am wooin',
Get her out of town!
All For I'm getting married in the morning!
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Doolittle Feather and tar me;
Call out the Army; But get me to the church.
All Get me to the church...
Doolittle For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!
Harry and Everyone Starlight is reelin' home to bed now.
Mornin' is smearin' up the sky. London is wakin'.
Daylight is breakin'. Good luck, old chum,
Good health, goodbye.
Doolittle I'm gettin' married in the mornin'
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime...
Hail and salute me Then haul off and boot me...
And get me to the church, Get me to the church...
For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!
http://stlyrics.com/lyrics/myfairlady/getmetothechurchontime.htm
wed - O.E. weddian "to pledge, covenant to do something,
marry," from P.Gmc. *wadjojanan. Sense remained
"pledge" in other Gmc. languages (cf. Ger. Wette "bet,
wager"); development to "marry" is unique to Eng. Wedding
was O.E. weddung "state of being wed," but the O.E. word
for the ceremony was bridelope, lit. "bridal run," in
reference to conducting the bride to her new home.
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Dr Bill, for a man who professess to have been happily married for many years, you make matrimony sound like a crime! shouldn't it be 'commit to matrimony?'
curiously, matrimony finds it root in Matrimonium, (gen. matris:MOTHER)
in a Yankee Publication, Robb's Cabinet of Curiosites, there is quip about a gentleman whose wife delivered boy after six months of marriage, and he asked the physician the reason for this expedition. "Make yours self easy", explained the doctor, "this often happens in the case of the first child, but never afterwards."
i suppose the link between motherhood and marriage is never far apart.
Not a soul down on the corner
That's a pretty certain sign
That wedding bells are breaking up
That old gang of mine
All the boys are singing love songs
They forgot "Sweet Adeline"
Those wedding bells are breaking up
That old gang of mine.
From the Siegfield Follies of 1923
(ps - The other song was 'Every little breeze seems to whisper "Louise"')
And for the possessor of a positive serology "every little breeze seems to whisper lues".
My community chorus does about four concerts a year, and the Spring one is not infrequently a reprise of Broadway hits, anywhere from the Gay Nineties forward. It was startling to me the first time I realized how many chorus members weren't even familiar with the old hits I had always considered universally-known classics - Oklahoma, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, and, yes, My Fair Lady.
(Never assume anything, I concluded; there's a reason they are called "old." I just didn't think _I_ was.)
Lotsa words for that.
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