Sunday May 19, 2013 Jump to content I'm sure that you all know
what an anagram is--taking the letters of a word and making a
new word. If you spell Mom backwards you have...uh, Mom. That
didn't work very well. Well, how about this one? Fred Franz was
complaining that nothing fair ever gets turned into a law when
something dawned on me. If you take awl and turn it around you
get....? And if you take an awl and turn it around you get
something that will hurt you if your try to use it. In fact,
looking at the way awls are made I 'd say you'd get screwed. So
now, at last, we know where the word "law" came from: It's even
in my dictionary: LAW |lô| noun 1 (often "the" law) the system
of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as
regulating the actions of its members and enforces by the
imposition of penalties. ORIGIN Old English awlü, from Old Norse
aülur ‘a wooden handled metal tool used to create a hole by
means of screw leverage action [an inclined plane wound on a
cylinder]; also the use [awl-t