photocopy addnpass from Ray Johnson
Please, People: What are your opinions and judgments of the title on a piece
of work auctioned on eBay under this claim?
photocopy addnpass from Ray Johnson
I enjoy trustworthiness in persons, pieces of paper, and in words. Somehow
the Internet seems to encourage rankled people to communicate their
resentments by writing falsehoods. "____," I bet you think this song is
about you.
Bill
Word History: A persistent resentment, a festering sore, and a little snake
are all coiled together in the history of the word rankle. "A little snake"
is the sense of the Latin word dracunculus to which rankle can be traced,
dracunculus being a diminutive of drac, "snake." The Latin word passed into
Old
French, as draoncle, having probably already developed the sense "festering
sore," because some of these sores resembled little snakes in their shape or
bite. The verb draoncler, "to fester," was then formed in Old French. The
noun and verb developed alternate forms without the d-, and both were borrowed
into Middle English, the noun rancle being recorded in a work written around
1190, the verb ranclen, in a work probably composed about 1300. Both words had
literal senses having to do with festering sores. The noun is not recorded
after the 16th century, but the verb went on to develop the figurative senses
having to do with resentment and bitterness with which we are all too
familiar.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~-->
In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers.
At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/fuDrlB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->
To unsubscribe, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka
http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
