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The total count of Amazon Prime members has exceeded 100 million globally, says Jeff Bezos
The head of Amazon revealed the membership count in a message to shareholders.
Apr 19, 2018 · 11:56 am
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has revealed that the total count of Amazon Prime members across the world has exceeded 100 million, reported The Wrap. Bezos revealed the information in his message to shareholders. His revelation has ended years of speculation on the membership count of Prime, which was launched by the Seattle-based company 13 years ago.
What does the count also reveal? "That's nearly $10 billion a year in membership – not even counting the items customers are actually buying on Amazon," said the publication. "In related news, the company boasts a $740 billion market cap."
Bezos also gave out consumption pattern data for Amazon Prime: "In 2017 Amazon shipped more than five billion items with Prime worldwide, and more new members joined Prime than in any previous year – both worldwide and in the U.S. Members in the U.S. now receive unlimited free two-day shipping on over 100 million different items."
Amazon Prime membership count
Netflix series 'Bard of Blood' will be out in September

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Cubs manager Joe Maddon was ejected for the second time in the NL Championship Series Wednesday after umpires reversed a foul-tip call in the top of the eighth inning.
Dodgers slugger Curtis Granderson was at the plate with L.A. trailing by one run when he appeared to strikeout on a a swing-and-miss Strike 3. Granderson and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts appealed to home plate umpire Jim Wolf that Granderson made contact with the pitch.
After discussing the unreviewable play, umpires ruled that indeed Granderson fouled off the pitch although video replay shown at Wrigley Field and on TBS revealed no contact was made. Maddon rushed to the field after the reversed call, deservedly upset and earned an ejection after spewing multiple expletives.
Cubs reliever Wade Davis struck Granderson out (again) with the next pitch and the Dodgers failed to cash in on the umpiring mistake as they look to rally for the NLCS sweep.
After the game, crew chief Jim Wolf admitted to missing what could've been a very big call (via The Associated Press): "I was dead wrong. I talked myself into the whole thing."


Travis Hines of NBC Sports' College Basketball Talk previewed the West Coast Conference Tournament, where he had the BYU Cougars listed as a contender behind Gonzaga and Saint Mary's.
Hines also named his first and second-team all conference performers. He had Eric Mika on the first-team along with Nigel Williams-Goss, Jock Landale, Przemek Karnowski and Jared Brownridge. The only other Cougar mentioned in his all-conference selections was TJ Haws who Hines had on his second team.
It was a good day at the NFL Combine for former Utah offensive lineman Isaac Asiata who showed off his strength on the bench press. He managed to put up 225 pounds 35 times to place at the top of the list for most reps among offensive lineman.


Interesting that you are considering using a LED volt meter display on them. I was thing of doing this on the first run,but haven't really looked for the right size volt led display. Shouldn't be that hard to do.
When will you being selling them again? I will need some.
We just closed another group buy for them about a week ago. I ordered extras. When they come in I will PM you. Thanks.
If have any left pm me as well. I could use one.
I would love 1 unit when you make your next run!
Can you make the PCB available via OSHpark or something similar?
Happy to source the components myself, especially since I missed the group buy.
These will be available again in Jan. Stay tuned. Sourcing the components state side would make the board cost astronomical.
These will be available again in Jan. Stay tuned.
Great News!! Happy New Year!!


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10 Reasons to Love the Gers
Gascony was England's first colony, its influence reflected in the historically rich fortified villages, ancient cathedrals, grand chateaux and beautiful gardens which dot the region. Today, old Gascony, the land of swashbuckling Musketeers and dapper Counts, virtually coincides with the Gers, department 32, one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution.
The Gers is far enough off the beaten path to retain its identity, yet established enough to cater to travellers. Located south of the main autoroute linking Bordeaux to Toulouse, the Gers offers an intimate portrait of French rural life without the distraction of crowds. The landscape is characterized by green river valleys, bucolic farmland, and undulating hills of vineyards and sunflowers that stretch to the horizon. The only pauses in the department's tranquillity are the many summer festivals and year-round farmers' markets.
Roman Ruins
The Via Aquitania, one of the important Roman highways that traversed France from Bordeaux to Narbonne, had a station at Eauze. Originally the capital of a Celtic tribe called the Elusatii, it became a significant village after Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul. There are three exceptional examples of Gallo-Roman architecture in and around this village. The Musée du Trésor displaying some 28,000 coins, and 50 magnificent pieces of jewellery from the 3rd century. The Domus de Cieutat, an archeological excavation at the residence of an aristocrat during the 3rd century. And the Villa de Séviac, an excavation below the village of Montréal-du-Gers displays large parts of a Gallo-Roman villa with stunning mosaic floors, and remains of a thermal spa complex. www.elusa.fr
Medieval Villages
Between 1256 and 1325 over 300 bastides (fortified villages) were built in fifteen departments in southwest France. The Gers has over a dozen beautiful examples. Laid out according to a geometric plan, a central square was always included. Often there was a covered market hall and arcaded shops. These villages were organized around three essential elements of peasant life: the cemetery, church and the castle. Each village has retained its own architectural identity, from the round, fortified village of Fourcès, to the arcaded villages of Tillac and St. Clar.
The Gers is authentically farm to table. It's a culinary heartland comprising a cornucopia of free-range poultry, goose and duck foie gras, confit, paté, pink and white garlic, earthy mushrooms, tender asparagus, ripe tomatoes, sweet plums, and succulent melons. The Gersois believe good food, carefully prepared, is not a luxury, but a common daily priority. In a department where food is profoundly revered, it's easy to find a delicious meal every day of the week, though usually between noon and two. Mealtimes are charmingly sacrosanct.
The Gers has been home to viticulture for almost 2,000 years. No longer lost in the shadow of Bordeaux, it is fast becoming a hot spot, producing some of the finest white, red, and rosé craft wines in France. Small, independent domaines such as Pellehaut, Chirolet, and Uby, as well as the larger domaines of Côtes de Gascogne, Tariquet, St. Mont, and the very distinctive Pacherenc-du-Vic-Bilh, and Madiran AOCs are now producing award winning appellations. Madiran, the most tannic wine in France, is particularly unique due to its high levels of resveratrol, a powerful antioxidant.
France's oldest brandy has been produced in the Gers since the 14th century. The first evidence of its use dates back to the year 1310/ Then Maître Vital Dufour, prior of Eauze and Saint Mont, extolled the 40 virtues of Aygue Ardente. Its grapes are grown in three distinct areas: Haut-Armagnac, Ténarèze and Bas-Armagnac. Each domaine has its own unique recipe in contrast to its industrialized, twice distilled cousin, Cognac.
Armagnac is distilled once. No additives are permitted at any stage from grape to bottle. It is the most natural, and elegant brandy in France. The spectrum of producers range from the Domaine de Laberdolive touted by Michelin-starred restaurants, to Domaine de Saoubis, one of the few Armagnac producers that is completely organic and biodynamic.
Floc de Gascogne
This seductive aperitif, which means "bouquet of flowers" in Occitan was officially launched as Floc de Gascogne in 1954. It is a fruity, red or white liqueur composed of two-thirds grape juice and one-third young Armagnac. Once the grapes have been harvested and pressed, the unfermented grape juice is added to Armagnac distilled the previous year on the same property. Eighty percent of Floc de Gascogne AOC is produced in the Gers.
The Gers department, considered the heart of Gascony, is characterized by its tranquil landscape and agreeable microclimate. The hills are topped with medieval villages. The valleys are criss-crossed by rivers and streams. Wooded copses, folded into the landscape, often conceal a multitude of birds and wildlife. Rows of golden-yellow sunflowers stretch to the horizon in July.
With few towns or villages to interrupt a leisurely walk or ride, the countryside is Elysian. There are also a several cultivated gardens worth seeing. The Jardins de Coursiana botanical garden and arboretum covers 6 hectares, located in the lovely village of La Romieu. Palmerie de Sarthou in Bétous, is an 8-hectare oasis of botanical splendor. It has a conservatory orchard, children's treasure hunt, Gascon farm, nursery, and integrated trails. www.jardinsdecoursiana.com; www.palmeraiesarthou.com
Almost every village in the Gers has a weekly farmers' market, some of which have been ongoing for 700 years. Market days are typically held under a medieval covered marketplace or the shade of entwined plane trees. One can buy everything from farm fresh produce, delectable cheeses, and roasted chickens, to flowers, table clothes, shoes, and crockery by the kilo. There is literally something for everybody. Most market days begin at 8 and finish by noon. In some villages you can still hear the lunch siren sound, an old custom designed to call together farm workers out in the fields. During the summer months there are also night markets, a convivial social occasion for locals and tourists alike. The town of Samatan (photo above) is where you'll find one of the biggest and best markets.
Every village in the Gers has a festival whether it's a gathering in the village foyer or an outright street party. There is no doubt that the Gerois love a good party. The 13th century village of Marciac hosts one of the biggest jazz festivals in Europe. Les Territoires du Jazz, takes place each August, a fortnight dedicated to jazz. The village on Vic-Fezensac hosts Tempo Latino at the end of July.
The village of Condom hosts Bandas every second weekend of May with 35 bands and 2000 musicians (brass and percussion), accompanied by street dancing. In arenas throughout the summer the Course Landaise is welcomed. It is one of the 4 traditional forms of bullfighting, but there is no killing of the bull, it's a purely acrobatic showcase.
There are some beautiful examples of religious architecture in the Gers. One of these, is the austere, yet elegant, Abbaye de Flaran, nestled below the hilltop village of Valence-sur-Baïse. The abbey was founded by the Cistercians in 1151. The complex, includes a medicinal garden and a small museum dedicated to Saint Jacques-de-Compostelle. In the former monks' dormitory there is a display of artworks by Cézanne, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, Monet, Braque, from the "Simonow" collection. There are also temporary exhibitions of ancient or contemporary art, classical music concerts and many other activities throughout the year. www.tourisme-condom.com
Churches in the Gers were often built in the southern Gothic style, which emerged in France in 1140, and was dominant until the mid-16th century. They share three major characteristics: ribbed vaults, flying buttresses and strained glass with at least one rose window. Although most of these churches are technically called cathedrals, they are essentially basic houses of worship because they are no longer run by bishops. Most churches in the department were either damaged or destroyed during the Wars of Religion and the French Revolution. The smaller, picturesque churches that dot the countryside are always closed, but sometimes you can ask for a key at the mayor's office. Cathedrals and small churches were an integral part of village life in the countryside.
There are more than 95 castles including towers, dungeons, and dovecotes (pigeonniers) in the Gers. Many chateaux are little more than ruins, while others are private homes. Some of them are open to the public, and are definitely worth a tour.
Chateau de Terraube is a typically Gascon castle built around 1272 for the de Galard family, Merovingian dukes of Gascony. There is a date over the doorway confirms this. The de Galards have owned the castle ever since. It was enlarged in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Stone decorations include animals, people, gargoyles and coats of arms, including those of the Galards, on a chimney.
The chateau has been listed as a historic monument since 1947. It is open to the public during cultural events. There is an antique fair held on the chateau grounds in September. It's a good place to look for silverware, jewellery, furniture, carpets, books, linen, paintings, and porcelain.
Chateau de Cassaigne is comprised of two castles, each privately owned. The buildings date from the 13th, 15th and 18th centuries. Worth noting are the façades and roofs, including those of the common buildings, the moat and bridge, the 18th century dining room and its chimney and the ground floor kitchen in the north wing. The Château de Cassaigne has been listed as a historic monument since 1987. www.chateaudecassaigne.com
Chateau de Lavardens is a massive structure that dates from 1620 onwards. It was built based around an earlier castle from the 13th century, which was dismantled in 1496 by Charles VIII following a siege. It is open to the public and holds art exhibits and cultural activities year round.
D'Artagnan was not just a fictionalized character from Alexandre Dumas the elder's novels! He was a real person by the name of Charles Ogier de Batz-Castelmore D'Artagnan. A valiant soldier, he became Captain of the Musketeers, and was answerable only to the Sun King, himself, Louis XIV.
D'Artagnan was born in the ancient village of Lupiac in 1611, son of Bertrand de Batz and Françoise de Montesquiou d'Artagnan. In the 1630's he travelled to Paris and became one of the Musketeers, living a life of daring and espionage. In 1655 he became Captain of the Musketeers and in 1667 he was promoted to governor of Lille. Longing to return to the exciting life he once knew, Louis IV ordered him to the field of battle during the Franco-Dutch war. He died there, at the siege of Maastricht in 1673.
In the center of Lupiac you'll find the Musée D'Artagnan housed in the Chapelle Notre Dame. If the weather is warm you might want to take very short drive to Lac de Lupiac. It's a beautifully kept 32 acre swimming, fishing, canoeing, and kayaking lake with a Gidget Goes Hawaiian Bar serving drinks, food and entertainment all summer long. www.lupiac.fr
Find more info at: www.guide-du-gers.com/en
Sue Aran lives in the Gers department of southwest France where she runs French Country Adventures, which provides private, personally-guided, small-group food & wine adventures in the Gers/Gascony, the Pays Basque, Tarn and beyond…
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SAN FRANCISCO – Two Alameda-based trust funds allege they are owed by a business for unpaid withdrawal liability.
Resilient Floor Covering Pension Trust Fund board of trustees and Resilient Floor Covering Pension Trust Fund filed a complaint on May 6 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Studer's Floor Covering Inc. citing violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
According to the complaint, the plaintiffs allege that on Dec. 31, 2009, the defendant withdrew from the pension fund and that they are owed $2,291,014 for withdrawal liability. The plaintiffs hold Studer's Floor Covering Inc. responsible because the defendant allegedly failed and refused to pay the plaintiffs despite being notified.
The plaintiffs seek judgment against the defendant, payment of unpaid payments due to the plaintiffs plus interest and liquidated damages, all legal fees and any other relief as this court deems just. They are represented by George M. Kraw, Donna L. Kirchner and Katherine McDonough of Kraw Law Group in Mountain View.


We took two teams to the finals - a Year 3&4 team and a Year 5&6 team, on what was surely the coldest day in recent history! It really was freezing, but despite the cold the teams performed magnificently well. Both teams played a hefty six games, and overall, the Year 3&4 team - at their first major tournament - finished in a well fought forth place, Harrison top scoring with three goals.
The Year 5&6 team were a squadron of seasoned professionals and they performed as such, winning all six of their games in sensational style.
A big congratulations to all that took part; both teams were a credit to the school.


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The book can be ordered directly from Springer-Verlag.
Hans Petter Langtangen, Computational Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Methods and Diffpack Programming, Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 1, 2nd ed., Springer-Verlag, 2003, XXVI, 855 p.
A gentle introduction to advanced topics such as parallel computing, multigrid methods, and special methods for systems of PDEs. The goal of all chapters is to "compute" solutions to problems, hence algorithmic and software issues play a central role. All software examples use the Diffpack programming environment - some experience with Diffpack is required. There are also some chapters covering complete applications, i.e., the way from a model, expressed as systems of PDEs, through to discretization methods, algorithms, software design, verification, and computational examples. Suitable for readers with a background in basic finite element and finite difference methods for partial differential equations.
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In the 2nd chapter of John, we see an uncharacteristic side of Jesus. When He went to the Temple during the annual Passover celebration, He was dismayed to see money changers, and merchants selling in the outer court. This was the area where the Gentiles were supposed to pray and meditate in peace. Instead it was a hubbub of cattle, sheep and doves, and the noise and movement made it impossible to pray.
The leaders demanded, "What right have You to do this?" These same leaders should have been the ones to make sure the Temple and Temple grounds were kept holy so people would have a place to pray and worship God.
Father, there is so much upheaval and deception in the world today. May You not punish us in Your righteous anger, but protect us from the work of our enemy who seeks to destroy the Church, our country, our families. Let Your glory destroy the darkness in this world. May we constantly turn to You that You may live in us and we may radiate the presence of Christ to the world around us.


Il produttore e compositore statunitense John Vanderslice ha infatti fatto trapelare tramite Twitter come nel pomeriggio di ieri a Los Angeles stesse venendo realizzato il remastering di Achtung Baby, in una sala di incisione dove si trovava.
Non è dato sapere se l'uscita di questa edizione rimasterizzata sia prevista già per i prossimi mesi oppure se sia pianificata per il 2011, 20° anniversario dall'uscita dell'album.
L'ultimo album degli U2 ad essere uscito in questa nuova veste è stato, nell'ottobre dello scorso anno, The Unforgettable Fire.
Come sempre vi terremo tempestivamente informati su qualsiasi novità !
Grazie a atu2 per la segnalazione.
Radiohead have revealed that they have finished another group of songs for their forthcoming new album.
In an essay for Index On Censorship, bassist Colin Greenwood also explained that the band are thinking about how they will release them.
Later in the essay, Greenwood also admitted that while he enjoyed the success of the way the band released 'In Rainbows' through a 'pay what you like' scheme, he missed the way the music industry used to be.
As previously reported, guitarist Ed O'Brien revealed the group had almost finished their new album and are looking to release it by the end of the year.


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When people first begin to study English orthography with me (and my scholarship community), one of the hardest things to swallow is that the trigraph <ugh> — not a digraph <gh> — spells /f/ at the end of a number of English words: tough, cough, laugh. When I first encountered the <ugh> trigraph, I also didn't buy it. So I did my own analysis of all of the English words with <ugh> and found out that it was a perfectly elegant analysis.
Besides spelling /f/, <ugh> can also spell nothing at all, as in <through>, <though>, <thought>, <caught>, and a number of others. In such words, the <ugh> is an etymological marker, signalling connections to related words.
These connections are there to express meaning — not just surface, in-the-moment meaning, but centuries of meaning embedded in these words. They are not there to be effortless for children and foreigners to acquire. They are there like the chromosomes of words, tying together a present with a past and marking members of a family. Even unknown or unrecognized members.
Being aware of the <ugh> trigraph has enriched my understanding not only of individual words, but also of the broader, often breathtaking patterns of the writing system as a whole.
Both derive from an ancient word family that denoted 'to reach, to obtain.' There, now didn't that deepen your understanding of both words?
If, like many phonics programs and conventional wisdom, we continue to labor under the misapprehension that English has a <gh> that spells /f/, an <ough> and an <augh> that spell /ɔ/ (as in daughter or ought), and a long list of "exceptions," we miss those meaningful connections. We miss opportunities to understand.
And that's evidence enough for me.
So good, Gina! I know I'm meeting you in a couple hours, but in my jet-lagged, up-since-three-in-the-morning state, this was a brilliant appetizer for the feast of language and meaning I'm about to enjoy this weekend.
This new article is, as always, rigorously masterful and written with concise clarity that, like all of your work for our orthographic community, is also a celebration of the English language itself.
The unitary conceptual hierachy of orthographic morphology, orthographic etymology and orthographic phonology is little known in the schooling industry, and even in those rare corners where there is some awareness of it, what is implied by its being a hierarchy is never understood .
By definition a hierarchy is a ranked and unified whole in which all components have an essentially interrelational functionality. Hierarchical order is not sequential; it is simultaneous and interrelational; the absence of any component rank of a hierarchy renders the whole order both non-functional and incomprehensible.
Conceptual components of a hierarchy, therefore, can only be understood by reference to the global purpose of the hierarchy – but not in isolation from other components. Put another way, in a hierarchy order any component of it can only be conceived, perceived and comprehended globally.
This jewel of an article demonstrates that with éclat. And in the context of the current event in Philadelphia, it is a brilliant demonstration of how orthographic etymology is pivotal, and that orthographic phonology simply cannot be properly understood in isolation from orthographic etymology.
Beautifully written! It is a more thorough explanation of what we explored in La Grange. Thank you for taking a "word wall" word off the wall and making perfect sense of its spelling!
Thanks for making the specific connections to the graphemes. How much easier to understand and teach. Can't wait to explore and explain with my students.
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What a load of rot!
If you were brought up with a phonetic language you would not think the same. It is only because you have been raised with this status quo that you tolerate it.
In Spanish (as in Welsh) you don't need to teach kids to spell or to have spelling tests. The words sound as they are written. Think of the less able children that are condemned to fail due to an archaic language.
Surely there is a place to remove such hangovers from centuries past to make communication better.
It might harm a handful of word historians, but it would aid the rest of the world!!
At least can't we have a system where the rules are obeyed?
Thank you for your comments. Yes, writing is for communicating — but communicating what? A writing system, an orthography, evolves to represent sense and meaning to people who know and use the language. It doesn't evolve to be simple for young children or foreigners to master.
Every language is phonetic — phonetic refers to the physical articulation, acoustics, and auditory perception of the spoken language. No writing system is phonetic, however. Pronunciation represented by writing systems is phonological, never phonetic. Not even in Welsh or Spanish. English orthography also represents phonological aspects of pronunciation. What works in Spanish or Welsh would not work in English, because these are all distinct languages. There's no reason to expect that English should work like another orthography; every orthography is totally unique to the spoken language it represents.
I'm afraid you've misapprehended the purpose of my studies: my aim is not to "tolerate" the "status quo" of English spelling, nor is it to "teach kids to spell" or "have spelling tests." Nor is it my goal to argue for or against the system, or for or against reform. My aim is to study the system, to see what we can learn about how humans have conceived of their world. I don't particularly care if someone is a good speller: I am far more interested in the curiosity than in the correctness. I don't understand the point of being upset about how spelling works, nor am I aware of any evidence that spelling reform "make[s] communication better." Would that it were that simple!
*Every word has a base element.
*Every phonological syllable has a written vowel pattern.
*Graphemic choices are etymologically governed.
Just for example. If you find a million exceptions to your "rules," perhaps you've got your "rules" wrong.
Seems to me like a PhD thesis in which there is too much to be known about "nothing". I know (no) "nothing" is unfair but so is the spelling and pronunciation of the word thorough which causes me to have to ask Siri EVERY single time I need to spell it. It may have some great & tricky archaic design and construction from ancient Outer Mongolian or Inner Tasmanian lost language but for me it's nothing but an aggravation and worse. That word needs to go. Period. It's a blight. And, as a note, I surely do not have the rules wrong. Say what you will about the rules for this word (whatever they may be) but it is malicious and offensive, at best.
So, which word is "malicious and offensive," thorough or enough? I couldn't quite make that out in your rant. I wonder what parameters you might set for which words to "need to go." Should we all just agree that words that you can't spell should be replaced? For an articulate guy who has the luxury of asking a computer how to spell something, you sure do complain a lot about written words.
You know, a writing system is what it is. I don't think it has any moral intent at all, so calling it names won't help. I'm not an apologist for English orthography; I just don't see the point of hating it any more than I see the point of hating the dog star, the Himalayas, or the number 71. I'm not sure that it's productive to hate stuff you don't understand, but go on ahead.
And, yes, you do have the rules wrong. There's no Outer Mongolian or Inner Tasmanian influence at play at all.
I'm wondering if this also applies to the word, 'eight'. I followed the links on etymology online (see below) to 'fight' and was wondering if the orthography of eight could be similarly linked?
Pretty much any word with an IGH or UGH in present-day English had a post-vocalic H or G in Old English. Like UGH, an IGH may either be a grapheme — spelling /aɪ/ — or a marker (when it follows E or A, as in eight or straight).
Just as the UGH has relatives, so does the IGH. Words with an IGH almost always have Latinate relatives with a C or G: eight-octave, straight-strict, night-noctunal, fight-pugilist, right-rectitude, light-translucent, delight-delicacy, might-magic, and on and on.
I finally had time to absorb this post. It exhilarates me every time I can see beyond the phonology, to which I was once so tied. I can't wait to demonstrate this understanding with my students. I thought Michel's (Old Grouch's) comments were thought provoking too. His statement: "Hierarchical order is not sequential; it is simultaneous and interrelational; the absence of any component rank of a hierarchy renders the whole order both non-functional and incomprehensible." It emphasizes for those who are questioning SWI, the fact that phonology is an integral part of the study but can't be understood without morphology and etymology. For me, I always thought of the hierarchy of word study as sequential…a formula, if you will. Now, I see it as the components being so intertwined that where we start is guided by a person's interest.
My mom found this 2013 post so our appetites could be satiated. Now I understand the purpose of as well as the "phonetic box" (if you will) that I was trying to fit it in. It is a clue (a chromosome, you called it) perhaps a strand of DNA running through these words, connecting them to what they were and what they have become. It's prettier than "what/why does it say….". I also think I have a new way of looking for connections based on this post!! Thank you for sharing your study!!!
Didja read the other comments? People complain about this word a LOT. Call it "malicious" and "offensive." But my responses hold up pretty well too.
I just taught this elegant understanding today in an Intro to SWI LEXinar. It's just beautiful.


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Charter Schools Want To Be Included In Discussions About Public School Construction
October 9, 2019 - 11:03 pm
Representatives from Frederick County's three charter schools spoke during Wednesday's legislative town hall.
Frederick, Md (KM) There's expected to be a lot of discussion about adequately funding public school construction in Annapolis during the 2020 Maryland General Assembly when it convenes next year. During Wednesday's legislative town hall in Frederick Wednesday night, representative from the County's three charter schools asked that funding for all public schools be equitable, and include charter schools.
"In your recommendations to the state, we request representation of the need for equitable facility funding and viable facility funding mechanisms for public charter schools in Maryland so that all public school children have equal access to a robust public education," said Allison Rizzo, who serves as an officer on the Board of Trustees for the Frederick Classical Charter School, and is the mother of three children ages 4-10.
Charter schools are part of the local public school system, but are given some autonomy when it comes to educating their students.
Rizzo says most of these schools are located in rented buildings; she says Frederick Classical Charter School leases about 40,000 square feet of space in a business and industrial park. "Although the interior is in very good condition, and it provides adequate space for our classrooms, it offers no green space for outdoor play for our children. We have limited offices, a very small library, a small gym, no band room. So it limits our ability to provide a full range of offerings for our scholars," she said.
Molly Carlson, representing Monocacy Valley Montessori and Carroll Creek Montessori Charter Schools, said both schools occupy buildings which do not have adequate space for classrooms. "They do not have gymnasiums. They don't have kitchens. They don't have a cafeteria. and they don't have outdoor green space," she said. "In addition, fully 18% of the annual budget for Carroll Creek Montessori and 15% of the annual budget for Monocacy Valley Montessori go to private landlords instead of initiatives that directly support student learning."
Rizzo said the charter schools do not want to be left out when it comes to appropriating state funding for public school education. "FCCS appreciates the priority that Frederick County is placing on public education funding, and we're just asking for the conversation of our charter school facility funding challenges to be elevated," she said.
County Executive Jan Gardner acknowledges that public school construction funding will be a major issue when legislators gather in Annapolis next year. "I believe that every student deserves to have a seat inside a school building," says Gardner. "Our Speaker of the House, Adrienne Jones, has indicated that the first bill out of the House this year will be a bill about school construction."
In response to the requests from the charter schools, County Executive Gardner says she is a member of work group on school construction funding, and the issue of funding charter schools has been discussed.


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Mel McDaniel – North To Alaska And Back
May 2, 2014 May 10, 2014 by BG, posted in Boomers, Country, Music, Nostalgia, Retirement, Seniors, Video
When country singer/songwriter Mel McDaniel moved to Alaska early in his career, he'd already picked up a lot of performing experience and had even made several records for a regional label in his home state of Oklahoma. But after trying his luck in Nashville and finding marginal success, he'd decided he needed a change of scenery. He found it in Alaska, where he honed his craft while entertaining in nightspots around the oil fields, and when he finally returned to Nashville he was ready. For the next decade and a half he was one of the most popular country stars around, with a slew of Top Ten records that included his Grammy-nominated 1984 chart-topper "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On."
McDaniel grew up near Tulsa, and it was there that he first began pursuing a music career, a decision he'd made as a young teen when he first saw Elvis Presley. But even though he managed to build a little momentum in his home area, he was disappointed by the results when he took himself to Nashville. After a couple of years he went North to Alaska and when he returned he soon found a lot more things going his way.
By the late 1970s, McDaniel had not only exhibited his songwriting skills but also began to show up regularly on the record charts, flirting with the Top Ten on a couple of records. In the early 1980s he broke through with "Louisiana Saturday Night" and continued to spin out good sellers like "Big Old Brew" and "I Call It Love," finally topping the charts with his big hit, "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On."
McDaniel's music was for the most part not filled with the mournful tear-jerkers so common in country music, but rather joyful and lively songs that brought a smile to listeners. He continued to generate lots of good selling records until the late 1980s, when things slowed down a little but he continued to perform and occasionally tour. A mid-1990s accident led to several surgeries and he later suffered a heart attack, but he eventually recovered well enough to still entertain his fans from time to time. He was 68 when he died in 2011.
Mel McDaniel – "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On"
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AFC Ajax have finally landed the 20-year-old Uruguayan international forward Luis Suárez in a €7.5m move from Dutch Eredivisie rivals FC Groningen.
Suárez has left Groningen, where he scored ten goals in 29 league games last season, to move to Ajax on a five-year contract. The two clubs issued a joint statement saying: "Because of the long relationship between FC Groningen and Ajax, the clubs have been on speaking terms throughout the whole process, leading to this positive conclusion."
The Royal Netherlands Football Association had ruled that Suárez's contract, which he signed last summer when joining Groningen from Club Nacional de Football, was binding; so unless Ajax were prepared to pay a significant transfer fee, he would remain a Groningen player. Today the 20-year-old Suárez, who won his only international cap in February, got his wish and could be registered for Ajax's UEFA Champions League third qualifying round tie against Czech side SK Slavia Praha on 15 and 29 August. Groningen will enter the UEFA Cup in the first round.
Dutch defender Jürgen Colin has returned to his homeland after two years in England with Norwich City FC to join AFC Ajax on a one-year deal with an option for more.
FC Groningen have moved swiftly to replace the AFC Ajax-bound Luis Suárez by signing prolific 20-year-old Swedish forward Marcus Berg from IFK Göteborg.
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Dele Alli could face punishment from FIFA for offensive gesture
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Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Dele Alli could face disciplinary action from football's governing body FIFA for its offensive gesture following the win over Slovakia in the World Cup 2018 qualification at Wembley Stadium.
According to FIFA, they will wait for the match reports from the officials by the end of the week before deciding whether to open any disciplinary proceedings.
Alli was caught making a middle finger gesture to the direction of referee Clement Turpin after he was body checked by Martin Skrtel.
Meanwhile, Alli clarified that his hand gestures in the 77th minute of the match was not for the referee but to his friend amd teammate Kyle Walker.
"Just to clarify, the gesture tonight was a joke between me and my good friend Kyle Walker! Apologies for any offence caused! Great win 2nite" Alli said in his Twitter account
In addition, England manager Gareth Southgate said that he was unaware of the 21-year-old's reaction during the game against Slovakia but he spoke to Alli afterwards and claimed that the incident was not for the referee.
"I've not seen it but I've been made aware of it. Kyle and Dele were mucking about, and Dele's made a gesture towards Kyle. I don't know what the angle of the pitch is. The pair of them have a strange way of communicating, but that's what they've said when it's been raised." Southgate expressed
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Professor David Gellner
Professor of Social Anthropology
Fellow of All Souls College
Anthropology of South Asia, East Asia, Buddhism, Hinduism, cities, ritual, politics, ethnicity, activism, borderlands, class formation and cultural change.
David Gellner was Head of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography from 2009-2012 and again from 2016-2018. His doctoral research (1982-4) was on the Vajrayana Buddhism of the Newars and on Newar social organization, in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. He has carried out fieldwork in Nepal on many subsequent occasions, broadening his interests to include politics and ethnicity, healers, mediums, and popular approaches to misfortune, religious change, activism of all sorts, democratization, elections, borderlands, Dalits, and class formation.
Email: david.gellner@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Teaching and research interests
Current DPhil students
Selected past DPhil students
David Gellner has carried out fieldwork in the Kathmandu Valley and elsewhere in Nepal on many subsequent occasions, broadening his interests to include politics and ethnicity, healers, mediums, and popular approaches to misfortune, borderlands, and cultural and religious change. In 1991 he did three months' exploratory fieldwork on Buddhist priests in Japan. For eight years he taught at Brunel University, west London, the first British university to introduce a Master's course in medical anthropology. For three years from 2002-5 he held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for research into the social history and practice of activism in Nepal (for the academic year 2003-4 he combined this with a Visiting Professorship at the Research Institute for Cultures and Languages of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies).
From 2004 to 2007 he was also involved in coordinating the MIDEA project on democratization in South Asia (for details, click here).
He gave his inaugural lecture as Professor of Social Anthropology on May 15th, 2009. For a copy of the text, please click here. For photos of the event, click here.
For his AHRC-ESRC-funded research project, Vernacular Religion, please click here.
For his ESRC-funded research project, Caste, Class, and Culture: Changing Bahun and Dalit Identities in Nepal, please click here.
For two other research projects in which he was involved, please see Democratic Cultures (PI Lucia Michelutti, UCL) and Alchemists of the Revolution (PI Craig Jeffrey, Geography, Oxford).
For a lecture that he gave at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen, on June 10, 2010, on 'Building Theravada Networks in Nepal and Beyond', please click here. To listen to a seminar on 'Can there be an anthropology of Hinduism?', given on 5 December 2014, please click here, and for a video of a lecture, 'Lumley's Children? The Nepali Community in Britain', given as part of Oxford University's Alumni Weekend in September 2014, please click here. For a lecture, 'Visions of Modernity: How Activists Restructured Nepali Society' given on 16/2/17 in Konstanz, Germany, as the keynote address at a conference on 'Activism, Anthropologically Speaking', click here (and scroll down).
For details of his three most recent edited books -- (1) on borderlands in Northern South Asia, (2) on Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal, and (3) on Nepali diaspora populations around the world (Global Nepalis) -- please click , click here, here and here.
The Hodgson Collection Catalogue.
Aneel Brar
DPhil Student
Kathrin Fischer
Melyn McKay
Mai Misaki
Cecilie Mueenuddin
Fahad Rahman
Priya Sajjad
Akanksha Awal (2019) Akanksha's webpage
Youth and Social Change in Northwest Uttar Pradesh
Catherine Hardie (2019)
Lay-Monastic Relations in Buddhism in China
Jennifer Hough (2017) Jennifer's webpage
North Koreans in South Korea: Humanitarian Subjects and Neoliberal Governance
Giyani Venya De Silva (2016) Venya's webpage
The Malevolent Benefactor? Urban Youth in Sri Lanka and their Experiences of the Sri Lankan State
Uma Pradhan (Development Studies) (2016) Uma's webpage
Ethnicity, Equality, and Education: A Study of Multilingual Education in Nepal
Ian Gibson (2015) Ian's webpage
Christianity and Social Change in Bhaktapur, Nepal
Andrea Koelbel (School of Geography and the Environment) (2015) Andrea's webpage
Upward and Away: Students' Aspirations and Realities in Kathmandu
Shrochis Karki (Development Studies) (2015) Shrochis's webpage
Education and Social Change in Nepal
Ina Zharkevich (Development Studies) (2014) Ina's webpage
An Ethnography of Social Change in the Maoist Base Area, Nepal
Florence Gurung (Theology and Religious Studies) (2014)
Religion and Identity among the Nepali Diaspora in the UK
Insa Koch (2013) Insa's webpage
Intimate States: The Politics of Governance and Sociality on a Council Estate in England
Ivan Costantino (2012) Ivan's webpage
Becoming Urban: Space, Identity and Mobility amongst Tibetan Migrant Youths in Lhasa
Stephen Robertson (2012)
Shōbōdan: An Ethnographic Analysis of Japan's Community Fire Brigades
Amanda Gilbertson (2012) Amanda's webpage
Within the Limits: Gender, Social Mobility and Social Change in Middle-class Hyderabad
Anastasia Piliavsky (2011) Anastasia's webpage
Theft, Patronage and Society in Western India
Jessamine Dana (2011) Jessamine's website
Muktinath: An Analysis of a Multi-faith Pilgrimage Site in Nepal
Radhika Gupta (2011) Radhika's webpage
Piety, Politics, and Patriotism in Kargil, India
Ian Fitzpatrick (2010) (contact Ian)
Cardamon, Class, and Change in a Limbu Village in East Nepal
Nicholas Farrelly (Development Studies) (2010) Nich's webpage
Spatial Control and Symbolic Politics at the Intersection of China, India and Burma
Roz Evans (Development Studies) (2009)
Inheriting the Past and Envisioning the Future: Young Bhutanese Refugees' Political Learning and Action
Naomi Appleton (Oriental Institute) (2008) Naomi's webpage
Biography and Buddhahood: Jataka Stories in Theravada Buddhism
Mallika Shakya (DESTIN, LSE)(2008) Mallika's webpage
Cultural Capital and Entrepreneurship inNepal: The Readymade Garment Industry as a Case Study
Jill Sudbury (2007)
An Enigmatic Renaissance: The Revival of the Bodongpa Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
Devi Sridhar (2006) Devi's webpage
The Art of the Bank: Nutrition Policy and Practice in India
Gabriele Alex (Brunel University) (2003) Gabi's webpage
Children and Childhood in Rural Tamil Nadu
Anil Sakya (Brunel University) (2000) Anil's webpage
Newar Marriage and Kinship in Kathmandu, Nepal
2013, David N. Gellner, C. Laksamba, K.P. Adhikari and L.P. Dhakal
British Gurkha Pension Policies and Ex-Gurkha Campaigns: A Review, 2013, Reading: Centre for Nepal Studies UK (available at www.cnsuk.org.uk).
2005, David N. Gellner and Sarah LeVine
Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal, 2005, Harvard University Press: Cambridge MA and London.
2001, David N. Gellner
The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes, 2001, OUP: Delhi.
Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest: Newar Buddhism and its Hierarchy of Ritual, 1992, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
2019, David N. Gellner (ed.)
Vernacular Religion: Cultural Politics, Community Belonging, and Personal Practice in the UK's Nepali Diaspora. Kathmandu: Vajra Books.
2018, David N. Gellner and Sondra L. Hausner (eds)
Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora. Delhi: OUP.
2016, David N. Gellner, S.L. Hausner and C. Letizia (eds)
Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal, 2016, Delhi: OUP.
Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia, 2013, Durham, US: Duke University Press.
Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia, 2010, Sage: Delhi.
Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in South Asia, 2009, Sage: Delhi.
2008, David N. Gellner and Hachhethu Krishna
Local Democracy in South Asia: The Micropolitics of Democratization in Nepal and its Neighbours, 2008, Sage: Delhi.
Nationalism and Ethnicity in Nepal, 2008, Vajra Books: Kathmandu.
Resistance and the State: Nepalese Experiences (2nd edition), 2007, Berghahn.
2007, David N. Gellner, H. Ishii and K. Nawa
Nepalis Inside and Outside Nepal: Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia Vol. I, 2007, Manohar: Delhi.
Political and Social Transformations in North India and Nepal: Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia Vol. 2, 2007, Manohar: Delhi.
Resistance and the State: Nepalese Experiences, 2003, Social Science Press: Delhi.
Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work, 2001, Berg: Oxford.
Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal, 1997, Harwood: Amsterdam.
Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, 1995, Clarendon: Oxford.
2019, (with C. Letizia) 'Hinduism in the Secular Republic of Nepal' (with C. Letizia) in T. Brekke (ed.) Modern Hinduism, pp. 275–304. Delhi: OUP.
2019, 'Politics in Gorakhpur since the 1920s: The Making of a Safe "Hindu" Constituency'
2019, 'Masters of Hybridity: How Activists Reconstructed Nepali Society'
2018, 'Politics of Buddhism in Nepal' Economic and Political Weekly 53(3): 17–20.
2018, 'A Heritage Flashpoint' (Op-ed), Kathmandu Post (January 1)
2017, (with A. Snellinger) 'Source Force' South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 40(2): 397–9. (dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2017.1297195)
2016, (with Sondra L. Hausner, Chandra Laksamba, and Krishna P. Adhikari) 'Shrines and Identities in Britain's Nepali Diaspora' Diaspora 19(1)(2010): 116–47
2016, (with Krishna P. Adhikari) 'New Identity Politics and the 2012 Collapse of Nepal's Constituent Assembly: When the Dominant becomes "Other"', Modern Asian Studies, available on CJO2016. doi:10.1017/S0026749X15000438
2014, 'From Kathmandu to Kent: Nepalis in the UK', Himal Southasian 27(4): 38-51
2012, 'Uncomfortable Antinomies: Going Beyond Methodological Nationalism in Social and Cultural Anthropology', AAS Working Papers in Social Anthropology 24, 2012, pp. 1-16.
2012, 'Fluidity, Hubridity, Performativity: How Relevant are Social Scientific Buzzwords for Nepal's Constitution Building?', In C. Mishra and O. Gurung (eds) Ethnicity and Federalization in Nepal, Kathmandu: Central Dept of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, 2012, pp. 91-102
2009, 'The Awkward Social Science? Anthropology on Schools, Elections, and Revolution in Nepal' JASO-online (NS) 1(2): 115-40
2009, 'The Uses of Max Weber: Legitimation and Amnesia in Buddhology, South Asian History, and Anthropological Practice Theory', In Peter Clarke (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 48-62.
2008, 'Democracy and Ethnic Organizations in Nepal' (with Mrigendra Karki) in D.N. Gellner & K. Hachhethu (eds) Local Democracy in South Asia: The Micropolitics of Democratization in Nepal and its Neighbours, pp. 105-27. Delhi: Sage.
2007, 'The Sociology of Activism in Nepal: Some Preliminary Considerations' (with Mrigendra Karki) in Ishii et al. (eds) Political and Social Transformations in North India and Nepal (Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia Vol. 2), pp. 361-97. Delhi: Manohar.
2007, 'Democracy in Nepal: Four Models' Seminar 576: 50-6.
2007, (with S. LeVine) 'All in the Family: Money, Kinship, and Theravada Monasticism in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal' in R.B. Chhetri & L.P. Uprety (eds) Observations on the Changing Societal Mosaic of Nepal (Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 10) , pp. 141-73. Kathmandu: Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tribhuvan University.
2007, 'Caste, Ethnicity and Inequality in Nepal' Economic and Political Weekly 42(20): 1823-8.
2007, 'Nepal and Bhutan in 2006: A Year of Revolution' Asian Survey 47(1): 80-6
2005, 'The Emergence of Conversion in a Hindu-Buddhist Polytropy: The Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, c. 1600-1995' Comparative Studies in Society and History 47(4): 755-80.
2004, 'Children's Voices from Kathmandu and Lalitpur, Nepal' Journal of Asian and African Studies 68: 1-47.
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The city of Gorakhpur presents what may be a unique, and is certainly an unusual, configuration of religion and politics. The sitting MP from 1998 to 2017, Yogi Adityanath, a Hindu monk, had one of the safest seats in India and won five parliamentary elections in a row, a career that culminated in his appointment as the BJP Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 2017. Adityanath was both an effective constituency MP and the head of a thriving Math (Hindu monastic temple). Gorakhpur used to be famous for its lawless image and gang warfare. We seek to explain how politics in Gorakhpur have evolved through three distinct periods: (1) Congress hegemony and Hindu-Muslim harmony at the local level; (2) intensified caste competition and the rise of muscular politics; (3) the impact of new caste politics (with the rise of caste-based parties such as the SP and BSP), with the Math as the focus of Gorakhpur's ever-stronger Hindu-based political identity. The BJP's loss of the Gorakhpur seat in 2018, in a by-election consequent on Adityanath's elevation to Chief Minister of UP, may be interpreted as a (probably temporary) rejection of the BJP, but it does not represent a loss of influence by the Math.
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It was fun taking the little twin-prop plane from Halifax to St. John's with Alan Doyle as part of the KP group. Half the people on the plane had a word with him as they shuffled down the aisle; the other half gave him a wink or a pat on the shoulder. The Rock's favourite son was our emcee again last night and frankly he could have done the whole event on his own – his manner so easy and hilariously funny, playing lead guitar alongside Jim Cuddy, Barney Bentall, Sam Polley and Devin Cuddy, and then introducing the athletes – a great group that included Curt Harnett, Adam Van Koeverden, Jamie Korab, Mark de Jonge and Monica Hitchcock. The crowd's warm, attentive vibe carried through into the auction part of the evening (the week in Newfoundland that has sold so well across the country was not offered in St. John's) and the music went on late into the night, enthusastic dancers up by the stage calling for encore after encore.


Huw Watkins' Violin Concerto has received warm critical reviews, following the world premiere at the BBC Proms on 17 August. Performed by Alina Ibragimova, Ed Gardner and the BBC Symphony, the concerto promises to be a major new addition to the repertoire and is a result of his growing collaboration with Ibragimova. Having met at the Royal College of Music, the two first having worked together when, as a BBC New Generation Artist, Ibragimova invited Watkins to write her a solo work, Partita.
Cast in three movements, the fast outer movements centre on motivic and rhythmic ideas with syncopation throwing the listener off the beat. The middle movement is a slow lullaby with a predominantly string accompaniment. The work offers the soloist passages of high lyricism alongside passages of bravura covering the full range of the instrument.
The performance is available to listen to on BBC iplayer until 23 August at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00t755w.


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True American
I've always like The Atlas of True Names, which produces etymological maps, each place marked with the original meaning of the name. I have the British Isles blu-tacked to the wall above my lavatory, so I can relive history as I relieve myself.
Anyway, they've just released their map of the United States. Here is the link. And here is a link to a BBC article on it, although I'm not sure about their version of Yucatan.
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Majorcan Pluck
I've just got back from Majorca, where, as I don't speak Spanish, I spent much time attempting to read menus by guessing the etymological roots. This is a dangerous way to order your meal, although scorpion fish turns out to be delicious.
Some restaurants, of course, had menus in English for linguistically incapable people like me. But these can be just as mysterious. The Es Turo restaurant had a starter which was called, in English, Marjorcan Pluck.
This puzzled me for a while. Was it Majorcan bravery that I would get? Or left over chicken feathers? So I ordered it on the basis that daring is the better part of gastronomy. When it arrived I suddenly realised that English etymology would have told me what it was. I really had got a plate of Marjorcan bravery, or, more precisely, Marjorcan guts.
Pluck is an old term for the innards, which are plucked out of an animal when it's butchered. Some brave people have heart, some have balls, but most have guts, or to use a synonym pluck. Thus people who are brave are gutsy, or plucky.
So next time you read of a plucky hero, remember he's delicious.
It was offally good.
The Inky Fool knows how to deal with waiters
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St Lubbock's Day
Just a very quick link to The Virtual Linguist who informs us that today (a Bank Holiday in England) is St Lubbock's Day. So known because the Bank Holidays Act of 1871 was pushed through by the Liberal Politician Sir John Lubbock.
This Is Getting Silly
It appears that what I consider an annoying Monday afternoon, a frustrating hour that can be forgotten after a good sherry, is now international news. French, Germans, Czechs and Turks, have thrown away their wines, steins, dumplings and delight, and are now concerned only with der Buchautor Mark Forsyth and his whinges.
For the record (if there is such a thing), I do not believe that the British Library is involved in a vast conspiracy to cover up goings on at the top of the Danish government. I simply thought that it was as amusing as it was annoying. It certainly shows the silliness of web-filtering, but, to be honest, I was more motivated by the constant failures of the British Library wifi, which have been driving all who work there to distraction for a couple of years, and of which this seemed a particularly preposterous example.
So I shall do nothing more etymological today than to mention that, according to the OED, the silly season was first recorded in 1861. And then I shall run away to my secret island hideaway. There I shall live a life of anonymity, and, I suspect, isolation from the Internet. I shall return to blogging on around the 24th.
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I've just come back from the Edinburgh Book Festival, where I had a lovely Scottish time drinking whisky and balancing books on my head. If you like, you can hear me on the Guardian Books Podcast chatting to the lovely Claire Armitstead. Yet what intrigued me most was a lady at the book signing who told me about the word flype.
Flype, she said, was a Scots word meaning to roll back a sock or stocking prior to putting it on one's foot.
Well, I have to say, that I didn't quite know whether to believe her. It sounded too good to be true, and I was away from my dictionaries. So the first thing I did upon hurtling back down to London was to look it up. And yes: flype (or flipe) means just that.
Merriam Webster has this:
chiefly Scot : to strip off by or as if by peeling
chiefly Scot : to turn or fold back (as a stocking)
The OED, though, shows that, though flyping is now chiefly Scots, its earliest citations are English. We fools south of the border threw away a jewel.
You've no idea how elated I felt.
Don't Feed the Troll Fishers
I've been reading Netymology by Tom Chatfield. It's all about the etymology of computer terms. Thus I have discovered that trolls do not come from Scandinavia and lurk under bridges. They come from almost everywhere else. Sort of.
The verb troller first appears in Medieval French. It meant going out hunting without having any specific animal in mind. Imagine, if you will, a medieval Frenchman wandering through a wood with a bow and arrow and shooting any animal he felt like.
That verb came straight into English as to troll. So Piers Plowman has:
And þus hath he trolled forth þis two & thretty winter.
And Bryan Ferry has:
Aggravated. Spare for days.
I troll down-town, the red light place
In fact, the OED specifically mentions that troll became gay slang for cruising. But trolling also kept its non-metaphorical hunting sense with troll fishing. This is when you just attach a baited line to the back of your boat and sail around in the vague hope that something will bite.
This is one of those classic cases where the word could have come from trolling, and could have come from trailing, and probably came from both. It's just so convenient that the words sound alike.
So whether a trollnet was really a trawl net or a troll net is hard to say:
No Person..withe any..Crele, Rawe, Fagnett, Trollnett..shall take..Spawne or Frye of Eeles, Salmon, Pyke or Pyckerell. (1558)
But it does seem to be that sense of throwing out bait and seeing who'll take it that gave us the original Internet trolls.
Ask anybody techie and they'll insist that a troll is somebody who posts deliberately provocative comments in an online forum, not because they believe them, but because they want to see who'll get angry, who'll bite. This was the original meaning back in the early nineties. Thus the Toronto Star reported in 1995 that:
Posts that are designed to encourage angry responses are called 'trolls' because the purpose is to fish for flames.
But, of course, far fewer people have heard of troll fishing, or indeed of aimless Frenchmen, that have heard of the nasty Scandinavian creatures that hide under bridges. People soon forgot the original precise meaning of trailing a bait, and that is why, under the influence of the Scandy creature, we now use troll to mean anybody on the Internet who's nasty.
Hamlet is Banned
Because of all the attention this post is getting, I ought to point out that I was not intending to disclose some outrageous Orwellian conspiracy, merely incompetence and inertia. I wrote the post because of 1) The amusing absurdity of the greatest work of British literature being blocked by the British Library. 2) The evident silliness of filtering systems, particularly one that blocks mit.edu but not facebook. 3) The frustration of dealing with institutions that disown their own Internet provider. 4) The miserable truth that over the last couple of years the failures of the BL's wifi - whether broken, slow or filtered - has forced researchers to choose, reluctantly, between books and the Internet.
On Monday, I was sitting in the British Library frantically trying to write my new book in a shturmovshchina. I had to quickly check a particular line in Hamlet, so I Googled Hamlet MIT, because the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has put the entire works of Shakespeare up on the Internet. (It takes 70 mins to order a physical book). I clicked on the link and...
A message came up from the British Library telling me that access to site was blocked due to "violent content".
Now, Hamlet is a violent play. I see that. When the curtain comes down there's a lot of bodies on the boards. But...
I tried it again. It told me that my attempts to access this violent content were being logged.
I took my computer over to the information desk, and after I had explained to them what MIT stood for (really), they called the IT department and told them about the webpage that I had been blocked from. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html
They had to spell out Shakespeare letter by letter. Really. Ess. Aitch. Ay. Kay...
I asked them if they were surprised that Hamlet was now banned in the British Library. They shrugged. I asked them how it was that I could still access youtube, facebook and twitter. I asked why the girl at the next desk to me had been able to spend the last half hour on Guardian Soulmates, while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's website was banned. They shrugged.
I asked if they saw the problem, perhaps just the symbolism, of Hamlet being banned in the British Library. They shrugged.
The IT department said there was nothing to be done, as it was only the British Library's wifi service that was blocking Hamlet, and the British Library's wifi service, they seemed sure, had nothing to do with the British Library. They were merely ships that passed in the night. Children crying to each other from either bank of an uncrossable river.
'But,' I said. It's one of those points where you just want somebody to understand the central point. 'The British Library has banned Hamlet for being too violent.'
And the lady behind the desk nodded and smiled.
It's one of those points where I don't know whether they're insane, or if it's me. Maybe Hamlet should be banned. I wrote an angry e-mail, and this morning I got one back saying they're looking into it. But maybe I should give all this up and get a job as a lighthouse keeper. But I fear I'd still have those dreams, those dreams about that man with poison sword and the people fighting in the grave and the venom being poured down my throat. O God! God!
UPDATE: The British Library has just tweeted to say that Hamlet is now unbanned.
Ess Aitch Ay Kay Eee Ess Pee Eee Ay Ar Eee
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Magazines and Time and Time Magazine
I'm feeling all uppity today, thanks to Time Magazine's lists of the 25 bloggers of 2013, which for some reason contains me. As a result, it seems appropriate to explain why magazines are called magazines, or more specifically, why they are named after part of a rifle.
I turned on the television the other day and in that split second between the sound coming on and the screen warming up I heard a male voice say with the utmost despair "The magazine! It's empty!"
Now I know a chap who works in the magazine business which probably messed with my mind on the subject, but my immediate understanding of the line was that too many journalists had missed their deadlines and that they weren't going to put the issue to bed (lovely phrase) in time for the printers. The voice sounded approximately as panicked as my acquaintance would be in these circumstances.
Then the screen warmed up and I saw an actor inspecting his gun.
So what was the connection? Once upon a time there was an Arabic word khazana meaning to store up. From that they got makhzan meaning storehouse and its plural makhazin. That word sailed northward across the Mediterranean (the middle of the earth) and became the Italian magazzino, which then proceeded by foot to France and magasin, before jumping into the back of a lorry and getting into Britain as magazine, still retaining its original meaning of storehouse, usually military. Then along came Edward Cave.
Edward Cave wanted to print something periodically that would contain stuff on any subject that might be of interest to the educated of London, whether it be politics or gardening or the price of corn. He cast around for a name for his new idea and decided to call it the Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer. So far as anyone can tell (and in the absence of a seance we can only guess at Mr Cave's thought process) he wanted to imply that this the information in his publication would arm the gentleman intellectually, or perhaps he wanted to imply that it was a storehouse of information. Anyway, he dropped the monthly intelligencer bit and by 1759 he was publishing this:
Cave's arms depot of information was a great success, not least because he employed a young and penniless chap called Samuel Johnson. But if, dear reader, Cave had decided instead to drop the magazine bit instead, we might all now be buying intelligencers. Thus Cave's caprice altered English. Porn mags might have been called carnal intelligencers and that, I am sure, would make the world a Better Place. And my acquaintance wouldn't be working for part of a gun.
Bob Dylan and Slutbags
Just a couple of links today. One to the stifling world of right-on political correctness that is Liverpool FC, and the other to the foul-mouthed world of twats and slutbags that is the US Democrat Party. The only connection is that within the space of an hour I was asked to comment on both stories. Something is awry.
The only thing I could think of to say about slutbag was slightly tangential and pretty damned yucky and not quoted in the article. It's the word scumbag, which is thrown around as though it's not at all obscene. People seem to have forgotten rather quickly that scum is semen and a scumbag is a condom.
On that basis a slutbag should really be a femidom, although I'm not sure that's true. A douchebag, incidentally, is the bag used to collect the fluids in a douche, or vaginal rinse.
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The Unknown Unknown
A Christmas Cornucopia
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And they're variously available in fifteen languages and counting. Well, to be honest, the first three are pretty untranslatable. But the others have been done.
Photographs of me, if anybody desperately requires them. Incidentally has it ever occurred to you that a digital camera is, etymologically speaking a finger-room? Also, a photograph is a light-drawing.
Reviews of A Short History of Drunkenness
Haha! . . . Highly suitable for Xmas! - Margaret Atwood
My favourite book of this and possibly any other Christmas is Mark Forsyth's A Short History of Drunkenness - The Spectator
Sparkling, erudite and laugh out loud funny. Mark Forsyth is the kind of guide that drunks, teetotallers and light drinkers dream of to explain the ins and outs of alcohol use and abuse since the beginning of time. One of my books of the year. Immensely enjoyable. Professor Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads
A Short History of Drunkenness is this year's Châteauneuf-du-Pape of Christmas books, no less. Bloody entertaining. - Emlyn Rees
Sometimes you see a book title that simply gladdens the heart. Everyone I showed this book to either smiled broadly or laughed out loud . . . This is a book of some brilliance - Daily Mail
With a great eye for a story and a counterintuitive argument, Mark Forsyth has enormous fun breezing through 10,000 years of alcoholic history in a little more than 250 pages. - The Guardian
Well researched and recounted with excellent humour, Forsyth's alcohol-ridden tale is sure to reduce anyone to a stupor of amazement. - Daily Express
This entertaining study of drunkenness makes for a racy sprint through human history - history being, as Mark Forsyth wittily puts it "the result of farmers working too hard". - The Sunday Times
This charming book proved so engrossing that while reading it I accidentally drank two bottles of wine without realising. - Rob Temple, author of Very British Problems
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