Wordsmith Talk |
About Us | What's New | Search | Site Map | Contact Us | |||
Register Log In Wordsmith.org Forums General Topics Miscellany Pop quiz
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
AUGHHHHHHHH, not again! I still haven't gotten over those horses! So, speaking of completely irrelevant:
REGIONAL NOTE When a Southerner favors a relative, he or she is not giving that person special privileges; rather, the Southerner looks like that relative. Favor can be either transitive—She favors her father—or intransitive with a compound subject: She and her father favor. This sense of favor goes back to early modern English: “This young lord Chamont/Favors my mother” (Ben Jonson). The verb derives from the noun favor, which was used from the 15th to the 19th century to mean “appearance, aspect; the countenance, face”: “What makes thy favor like the bloodless head/Fall'n on the block?” (Tennyson). This sense of the noun is now archaic, but the verb thrives in the English of the Southern United States.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted ![]()
Pop quiz
maverick 01/12/04 05:07 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
Jackie 01/12/04 05:18 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
of troy 01/12/04 05:30 PM ![]()
Leave and let
AnnaStrophic 01/12/04 05:35 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
wwh 01/12/04 06:15 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
Bingley 01/13/04 07:10 AM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
sjmaxq 01/13/04 07:31 AM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
jheem 01/13/04 05:01 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
jheem 01/13/04 02:17 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz, or: Luke, I am your Father
Buffalo Shrdlu 01/13/04 03:07 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz, or: Luke, I am your Father
jheem 01/13/04 03:19 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
jheem 01/12/04 06:51 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
maverick 01/12/04 09:32 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
jheem 01/12/04 11:13 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
maverick 01/12/04 11:29 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
Alex Williams 01/13/04 12:16 AM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
of troy 01/13/04 12:34 AM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
jheem 01/13/04 12:49 AM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
Jackie 01/13/04 01:29 AM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
maverick 01/13/04 08:19 AM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
Jackie 01/13/04 04:44 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
jheem 01/13/04 04:58 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
maverick 01/14/04 09:45 AM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
maahey 01/14/04 10:03 AM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
maverick 01/14/04 10:42 AM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
jheem 01/14/04 01:43 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
maverick 01/14/04 02:02 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
jheem 01/14/04 02:13 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
maverick 01/14/04 02:33 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
jheem 01/14/04 02:40 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
Bingley 01/14/04 03:00 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
maverick 01/14/04 10:52 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
maverick 01/19/04 01:51 PM ![]()
Re: the Dr. is in
Buffalo Shrdlu 01/19/04 01:56 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
Faldage 01/19/04 02:08 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
Jackie 01/20/04 01:42 AM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
Faldage 01/20/04 10:55 AM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
maverick 01/20/04 06:28 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
Bingley 01/14/04 02:20 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
jheem 01/14/04 02:23 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
Bingley 01/14/04 02:28 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
sjmaxq 01/13/04 06:58 PM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
Jackie 01/14/04 12:55 AM ![]()
Re: Pop quiz
tsuwm 01/12/04 10:38 PM
Moderated by Jackie
Link Copied to Clipboard
Forum Statistics Forums16Topics13,915Posts229,990Members9,198 Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
Newest Members testawad, Bill_L, achz, MAGNVSTALSMA, Burlyfish
9,198 Registered Users
Who's Online Now 0 members (), 696 guests, and 2 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters(30 Days) A C Bowden 18
Top Posters wwh 13,858Faldage 13,803Jackie 11,613wofahulicodoc 10,956tsuwm 10,542LukeJavan8 9,953Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210AnnaStrophic 6,511Wordwind 6,296of troy 5,400
Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith.org