#137354 - 01/19/05 09:09 AM
Re: weekly theme for Jan. 17, 2005
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journeyman
Registered: 11/18/04
Posts: 95
Loc: New Hampshire
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I believe the British say the word "miscellany" with the accent on the "cell" syllable. (miss-SELL-uh-knee) Sounds much better.
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#137356 - 01/19/05 05:03 PM
Re: weekly theme for Jan. 17, 2005
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 09/30/01
Posts: 6296
Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U...
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Here is a good use of miscellany in one of Frost's poems, which I heard sung once as a choral work:
A Girl's Garden
A neighbor of mine in the village
Likes to tell how one spring
When she was a girl on the farm, she did
A childlike thing.
One day she asked her father
To give her a garden plot
To plant and tend and reap herself,
And he said, "Why not?"
In casting about for a corner
He thought of an idle bit
Of walled-off ground where a shop had stood,
And he said, "Just it."
And he said, "That ought to make you
An ideal one-girl farm,
And give you a chance to put some strength
On your slim-jim arm."
It was not enough of a garden,
Her father said, to plow;
So she had to work it all by hand,
But she don't mind now.
She wheeled the dung in the wheelbarrow
Along a stretch of road;
But she always ran away and left
Her not-nice load,
And hid from anyone passing.
And then she begged the seed.
She says she thinks she planted one
Of all things but weed.
A hill each of potatoes,
Radishes, lettuce, peas,
Tomatoes, beats, beans, pumpkins, corn,
And even fruit trees.
And yes, she has long mistrusted
That a cider-apple tree
In bearing there today is hers,
Or at least may be.
Her crop was a miscellany
When all was said and done,
A little bit of everything,
A great deal of none.
Now when she sees in the village
How village things go,
Just when it seems to come in right,
She says, "I know!
"It's as when I was a farmer. . . ."
Oh, never by way of advice!
And she never sins by telling the tale
To the same person twice.
Robert Frost
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#137357 - 01/19/05 07:06 PM
miss SELL uh knee
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Carpal Tunnel
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#137358 - 01/19/05 07:34 PM
Re: miss SELL uh knee
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journeyman
Registered: 11/18/04
Posts: 95
Loc: New Hampshire
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There lives a poor soon-to-be wife
Whose husband sees marriage as strife.
Upon wedding, his name...
Well it sure won't be plain:
Quoth his girl, Miss Alainey, "That's life!"
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#137359 - 01/19/05 08:05 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/24/02
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Loc: Vermont
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you and Mav are rockin' the house, Ani!!
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Did you LEARN it that way??? That is, is this a regional thang, or what? Nobody here says it that way. I honestly cannot imagine actually saying MISSuhlaney. Have I been doing it wrong all my life?
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