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updownside frerend's suggestion of a contraction
There's a part of speech called a frerend
And another one known as a gerund
We need them I guess
But I have to confess
They give me a headache Excedrind. :)
When I go to a concert to hear
Music which pleases my ear
I do not count clefs
Or the work I just left
I just listen all rapt in the "here".
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There's a part of speech called a frerend
But a frerend needs support in a sentence, which is why we have Frerend jocks.
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Frerend jocks
dormez vu, dormez vu?
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a frerend needs support in a sentence
A frerend needs support in a sentence
Like a friend in need of repentance.
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Wow. Webster's 1828 Dictionary gives: SPANG, n. A spangle or shining ornament; a thin piece of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament.
2. An y little thing sparkling and brilliant like pieces of metal; as crystals of ice. For the rich spangles that adorn the sky.
Webster Dictionary, 1913, gives:
Spang (Page: 1377)
Spang (?), v. t. To spangle. [Obs.]
Spang (Page: 1377)
Spang, v. i. To spring; to bound; to leap. [Scot.]
But when they spang o'er reason's fence, We smart for't at our own expense. Ramsay.
Spang (Page: 1377)
Spang, n. A bound or spring. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
Spang (Page: 1377)
Spang, n. [AS. spange a clasp or fastening; akin to D. spang, G. spange, OHG. spanga, Icel. spöng a spangle.] A spangle or shining ornament. [Obs.]
With glittering spangs that did like stars appear. Spenser.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (interesting, to be able to follow one source down through time!) has:
Main Entry: spang
Pronunciation: 'spa[ng]
Function: adverb
Etymology: Scots spang to leap, cast, bang
1 : to a complete degree
2 : in an exact or direct manner : SQUARELY
Wordsmyth:
Part of Speech adverb
Pronunciation spaeng
Definition 1. (informal) quickly, squarely, or precisely.
Example He walked spang into the wet cement.
Ultralingua gives what is to me both a better yet controversial explanation:
spang v. < spá[ng] > : 1. To leap. jerk, bang (dialectal); "Bullets spanged into the trees"; SYN: bang. [ETYM: Scot.] I can certainly see where bullets, or 'most anything that ends in s can morph from -s banged into spanged, but what does bang have to do with leap or jerk? That is, a gun will leap and jerk in your hand when you fire it, but in the normal way I think of leap and jerk, I would never associate the word bang with them.
I had been planning to say (before I got all sidetracked) that I've heard this word all my life; dunno if it's Southern, Appalachian, or just old-fashioned; for some reason I am mentally associating it with Mark Twain.
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I've heard it before as well. If it is Scots for bang that works for me since I am more likely to say bang in the middle than smack in the middle. An arrow also tends to go "spang" when it hits the target. (I was going to say hits the bullseye but I never got to hear that due to my aim, or lack thereof)
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Ten Cadillacs
A diamond mill
Ten suits of clothes
To dress to kill
A ten room house
Some Bar B Q
And fifty chicks not over twenty-two
Then throw me
(Smack dab in the middle)
Oh, I wanna be
(Smack dab in the middle)
Ahhhhh, now boys you can see why I wanna be smack dab in the middle now
So I can rock and roll to satisfy my soul
~ Ray Charles
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I ate a bowl of chili And I felt OK At least until I passed This fine Cafe I saw a guy eatin' A great big steak While a waitress stood by feedin' him Ice cream and cake It should've been me With that real fine chick It should've been me With that real fine chick You know, it should've been me Eatin' ice, cream and cake ~ Ray CharlesLittle relevance but Father Steve's post jarred me earworm to this similiar mid-fifties "talking blues" tune by the late great Elder Ray, and I just couldn't resist.  But for continuity and decorum here is another verse of "Smack Dab in the Middle" as recorded by its composer at about the same time (1955) SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE (Charles E. Calhoun) CHARLIE CALHOUN (M-G-M 11989, 1955) One hundred beds with chorus girls A street that's paved with natural pearls A wagon load of bonds and stocks Then open up the door at Fort Knox Then throw me (Smack dab in the middle) I wanna be (Smack dab in the middle) Ahhhhh, now listen boys throw me Smack dab in the middle right now So Ray * can rock and roll to satisfy his soul. * Written by Calhoun for Ray Charles. (?)
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I've never heard 'spang' used before. After reading over all these posts, however, I realized how much tension of sorts we can find in words that contain the letters 'ang,' whether spang, clang, bang, gang, hang... Tension, even in anguish. Coincidental or not, there's a lot of energy in 'ang.'
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