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OP The quotation at the bottom of today's mailing from Anu is:
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
Well, this nearly doubles his age:
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.
As long as we're playing junior Quibblemeister here, how about quibbling about calling it an eponym when the name itself is derived from the character's nature.
How very odd: my W.otD. has no quotation at the bottom of today's mailing . It reads:
"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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What are you, trying for the position of head nitpicker?
here's what is at the bottom of "Today's Word", which matches the dates in Connie's post..
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. -J.S. Buckminster, clergyman and editor (1784-1812)
No; but Bingley said he got something mailed to him, and I didn't get it! [jealous e ]
I got what Bingley got.
formerly known as etaoin...
I did too.
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 got what Bingley got."
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