re: Commit matrimony?

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.


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