Perfectly OT: Languishing words
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This a real interesting site:
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/ger ... about.html
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by John R. Clark Hall, Second Edition.
Available here are scanned images of the pages of Clark Hall's A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Second Edition (1916). Later editions of Clark Hall's dictionary exist, but the 1916 edition is the most recent edition whose copyright has expired.
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http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/ger ... about.html
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by John R. Clark Hall, Second Edition.
Available here are scanned images of the pages of Clark Hall's A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Second Edition (1916). Later editions of Clark Hall's dictionary exist, but the 1916 edition is the most recent edition whose copyright has expired.
MarkB
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Origin of "Kit be nimble, Kit be quick, Kit jumped over the candlestick." or Jack etc.
Today is St. Catherine's Day. On the eve of the holiday in old England, lace makers had to sell the tatting that they hand produced, writes author John Timson. "Having sold their stock, the lace makers would celebrate in the evening with a Cathern Bowl, a powerful brew made from hot apple pulp, cinnamon and cider. Thus fortified, they faced the trickiest part of the celebrations. Each girl had to jump over a lighted candle on the floor, swiftly enough not to singe her petticoats, but not so swiftly that the draft blew out the candle, or that would bring her bad luck for... THE REST OF HER LIFE! Kit be nimble, Kit be quick, Kit jump over the candlestick, the others chanted." Similar divination was a custom at medieval weddings, where grog filled men (Jack be nimble, etc) tried to execute leaps without blowing it, for a year's good luck.
Sources: Timson's Book of Curious Days. and the The Globe and Mail. Nov. 25/03
Today is St. Catherine's Day. On the eve of the holiday in old England, lace makers had to sell the tatting that they hand produced, writes author John Timson. "Having sold their stock, the lace makers would celebrate in the evening with a Cathern Bowl, a powerful brew made from hot apple pulp, cinnamon and cider. Thus fortified, they faced the trickiest part of the celebrations. Each girl had to jump over a lighted candle on the floor, swiftly enough not to singe her petticoats, but not so swiftly that the draft blew out the candle, or that would bring her bad luck for... THE REST OF HER LIFE! Kit be nimble, Kit be quick, Kit jump over the candlestick, the others chanted." Similar divination was a custom at medieval weddings, where grog filled men (Jack be nimble, etc) tried to execute leaps without blowing it, for a year's good luck.
Sources: Timson's Book of Curious Days. and the The Globe and Mail. Nov. 25/03
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