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The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. -J.S.
Buckminster, clergyman and editor (1797-1812)
Not bad for somebody who managed to fit in quite a varied career before dying at age 15.
Bingley
Bingley
Author: Buckminster, Joseph Stevens, 1784-1812.
Title: Sermons by the late Rev. J.S. Buckminster. With a memoir of his life and character.
Edition: Second edition.
Publication info: Boston : Printed and published by Wells and Lilly ...1815.
"The arrogant nephew and his two drawcansir uncles appeared ..."
Washington Irving; The Widow's Tale; Defiance Democrat (Ohio);
Oct 13, 1855.
Eponyms -- AWAD's perennial favorites -- make their appearance once again.
We've had 38 weeks of them over the last 10 years. Eponyms are words derived
from people's names. There is a reason for their popularity: where else can
you a find a whole story in just one word? This week's selection features
words named after people famous and infamous, real and fictional, well-known
and relatively obscure. This week we'll see words derived from characters in
Greek mythology, French royalty, US law, and English fiction.
-Anu Garg
anu@wordsmith.org
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The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. -J.S. Buckminster, clergyman and editor (1784-1812)
formerly known as etaoin...
In today's mailing:
thersitical (thur-SIT-i-kuhl) adjective
Foulmouthed; scurrilous.
[After Thersites, a Greek in Iliad known for his abusive and foulmouthed
nature. He called Agamemnon greedy and Achilles a coward.]
"The self-described beneficiaries of most of this I.Q. increase,
Princeton's 'Smart Fans,' have railed at season's end against
thersitical cheers and jouncing the stands at basketball games."
Bullyrag; The Princeton Spectator (New Jersey); Mar 3, 1998.
"To conclude, after the fashion of our Thersitical Magazinist,
Mr. Poe is about 39. He may be more or less."
Hiram Fuller; Mr Poe and the New York Literati; Evening Mirror
(New York); May 26, 1846.
This week's theme: eponyms.
Erratum: The year of birth in yesterday's quotation should have been 1784. [my bold]
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I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be
just as proud for half the money. -Arthur Godfrey, television host,
entertainer (1903-1983)
eta--
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what, you on vacation, too?
formerly known as etaoin...
http://images.google.com/images?q=tongue+face&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N is what I really meant, but the link to it is broken, alas; had to find a substitute. And a long time it took, too! All your fault, eta.
or the second one in the fourth row?
or the fourth one in the second column??
formerly known as etaoin...
<<I did too>>
This all sounds just a bit cosier than kosher.
;)
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