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of-troy, is there anything I say that you won't rant about?
Trick 6,inuendo and sexual slur, followed by trick 5the best defence against being caught doing wrong is a good offence. in the form of trick 4, the twist! he complains i am ranting.
what did you tell us about what word?
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It is incorporated in some home-made toothpaste recipes, although I haven't a clue why teeth would need embalming.
I hazard a guess that it is not meant for the teeth but more for the gums, to make them firm and healthy. Any periodontist around?
Quite timely to be discussing lavender since they are now fragrantly in bloom in my garden. So it was named that after its use was known. I wonder what they called it before that.
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I wonder what they called it before that.
"Hey you, yeh you, the funny-lookin' flower over there"?
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the root word Laver (latin) also bring us the english latrine, laundry, lavage (a medical term for washing, ER fans will know it!) and lavish!
the latin root for soap is also shared by savor, and savory!
The antiseptic quality of myrrh must have made it very valuable, when there were few other effective medicines.. i wonder if any current day medicines use the plant myrrh or its oil.. (willow bark was used for fevers, and the an acid in willow sap, purifed, give us the active ingredient of asprins.)
i think i have heard the myrrh was one of oils used in embalming mummies. I looked up myrrh, and found it is a member of the genus Cammiphora family of shrubs, all of which have fragrant resins, one of which is Balm (which brings us back to embalm(ing)..
my dictionary says myrrh goes back to an arabic word myrrh, which means bitter--doesn't Mirium (Mary) also mean bitter?
My lavender doesn't have buds yet, but a neighbors bush that gets full sun is also in bloom.
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what did you tell us about what word?
It's stated explicitly in the link, ma'am. It relates to myrrh, the original subject of this thread (and the title of all posts), rather than to your discussion of soap and "cultivate".
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Sorry this ain't about the thread, eggzackly, but I saw a lavender farm in Tasmania. wordcrazy's post reminded me of a happy time spent frolicking in fields of bloomin' lavender! (one person on my tour suggested we frolic there - o, we were so charming!) It IS a marvellous scent.
But....um.....why does the song go "Lavender blue, dilly dilly?" Lavender is, well, lavender in colour.
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here are lines for someone's "word" related posts about myrrh
The character Myrrhine, a young and sexy wife, appears in the bawdy comedy-drama Lysistrata by Aristophanes.
... Aristophanes would in fact have used the more earthy, "street-language" of his day.
...there remains the possibility that there was, in greek, a linguistic connection between the anatomical word and the substance myrrh. Here my research ends
the substance of the post was to relate myrrh, tenuously to a slur word for women.
the substance of my post, was to explore why aromatic plant oils were valuable, and how one aromatic oil (lavender) has a name directly related to the use of aromatic oils in past times.
it also refered to a word introduced in another thread, by Dr bill, about a strigil.. (a tool used with oils, when oils are used to wash)
as i researched it, i found some other interesting words origins, (the etymologoy of culture i thought facinating)
but i guess i didn't stick to myrrh specifically, nor did i go off on to the tangent of using earthy street language terms for as womans names.
it doesn't matter how many times you tell the same lie, its still a lie. repeation doesn't make something true. yes earthy 'street language' words, insulting words, exist. go out on a street corner and use them if you want.
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"Oh, shit!"
- Last words on majority of flight recorders recovered after plane crashes
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see http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=73229. With all these interruptions it's getting hard to talk about the subject of this thread, "myrrh". Edit: Of-troy's repetitive post, immediately below, simply proves my point once again. Consuelo's title, "let's do it again", confirms their goal to repeat ad nauseum.
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