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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread hijack #84418 10/23/02 05:49 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 It is my hodiernal pleasure to hijack tsuwm's "hesternal". How can he call that a worthless word? Here's a quote from Rupert Brookes "Letters from America": I slipped from my car up about Fortieth Street, the region where the theatres and restaurants are, the 'roaring forties.' Broadway here might be the offspring of Shaftesbury Avenue and Leicester Square, with, somehow, some of Fleet Street also in its ancestry. I passed two men on the sidewalk, their hats on the back of their heads, arguing fiercely. One had slightly long hair. The other looked the more truculent, and was saying to him, intensely, "See here! We con-tracted with you to supply us with sonnets at five dollars per sonnet---" I passed up a side-street, one of those deserted ways that abound just off the big streets, resorts, apparently, for such people and things as are not quite strident or not quite energetic enough for the ordinary glare of life; dim places, fusty with hesternal excitements and the thrills of yesteryear. Against a flight of desolate steps leant a notice. I stopped to read it. http://makeashorterlink.com/?G10231932 http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/ hesternal a. pertaining to yesterday. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: hijack #84419 10/23/02 06:17 PM Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 13 British Columbia Q quoththeraven stranger quoththeraven stranger Q Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 13 British Columbia WWH, In reply to: It is my hodiernal pleasure to hijack tsuwm's "hesternal". How can he call that a worthless word? I'm with you, WWH. Hijack away my friend! That one's a rare jewel in most people's vocabulary coffers. In reply to: dim places, fusty with hesternal excitements and the thrills of yesteryear. A nicely turned phrase but with "fusty" and "hesternal" sharing such a cozy space within six syllables of each other, it struck me as a tad fustian. QTR Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,315 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 1 members (wofahulicodoc), 340 guests, and 3 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 30 A C Bowden 13 ddrinnan 1 LukeJavan8 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,532 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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