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Post by fallenangel on Jul 9, 2007 8:17:07 GMT -6
colt
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Post by moonglum on Jul 9, 2007 13:43:46 GMT -6
bolt
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Post by Phalon on Jul 10, 2007 5:55:35 GMT -6
Row, row, row your boat
Gently 'round the moat.
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Post by moonglum on Jul 10, 2007 10:00:14 GMT -6
Merrily, merrily; merrily, merrily
I'll go and get me coat
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Post by vox on Jul 10, 2007 14:13:20 GMT -6
goat
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Post by Phalon on Jul 11, 2007 5:03:40 GMT -6
You can't
Row, row, row a goat
No matter how hard you try.
Cuz a goat is not a boat,
And will not float, that's why.
You can goad a goat to water, but you can't make it swim.
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Post by moonglum on Jul 11, 2007 9:52:41 GMT -6
'Come on now, hop to it Mr. Toad'
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Post by fallenangel on Jul 11, 2007 19:10:43 GMT -6
told
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Post by Siren on Jul 11, 2007 21:43:23 GMT -6
cold
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Post by mabd on Jul 12, 2007 7:34:37 GMT -6
Time to feed the word gator <hungry?> cild One of the first uses of the word cild appears in King Horn, written in Saxon, "Ðæt cild wixþ and gewurj. eft cnapa and eft syððan cniht." The line translates to the child grows, and then becomes a boy, and aftwards a young man. Cild also is used in the Saxon Gospel of St. Matthew, making for some nasty Latin/Saxon writing: "Aris and nim dæt cild surge et accipe puerum." The Codex Exoniensis, a work somewhat akin to the Poetic Edda of the Norse (and discussed here many, many months ago), contains phrases like "þurh cildes had" (in a state of childhood). The close relationship between cild and the Present Day English child seem to indicate that the long /ï/ (phonemically long /i/) sound shifted, during the Great Vowel Shift leading up to Early Modern English. Interestingly (Gabbin, are ye listening?), the word was subsumed into Old English (OE) sometime between 400 and 1066 CE. The great dictionary by Bordon cites several ways OE used cild or cyld as free roots. Bordon defines cild as a child, an infant, a young man, or a youth of gentle birth. This usage, coupled with holidays such as Cildamaessedaeg (Children's Day, celebrated around the Christian Christmass) suggests that the varied defintions of the word reflected dialectical differentiation and personal preference in referring to children. That is, the concept of the child as someone other than a small adult may be centuries older than we think. How the various roots of cild were gendered has thrown linguists, no matter how cunning they may be, for a loop. Cildfarn (pregancy) is feminine -- that makes sense. But then there's cildharma (afterbirth) which is a masculine noun. Big, big mess. By the time you get to Childe Harold, BTW, you're in Middle English which much too modern a language for me to know phiffle about it. Whew, long enough rant, gator aiders? So. Carry on with cild.  Maeve |
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Post by fallenangel on Jul 12, 2007 7:54:24 GMT -6
mild
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Post by mabd on Jul 12, 2007 8:33:54 GMT -6
mold
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Post by moonglum on Jul 12, 2007 10:10:23 GMT -6
meld
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Post by mabd on Jul 12, 2007 12:06:11 GMT -6
Hey, MG, could you send us some rain? I think all the mold in some rotten lumber we found has melded our lips tighter than any weld?
<guffawing with sealed lips is *hard*>
Maeve
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Post by moonglum on Jul 12, 2007 13:50:00 GMT -6
Alas, the rain has gone
The sky and sun are one
Patience I can no longer hold
This calls for a walk across the wold
A hobby is needed to ward off fair slumber
I'll chew on this piece of mouldy lumber
MG
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Post by mabd on Jul 12, 2007 17:54:06 GMT -6
Alas, the rain has gone The sky and sun are one Patience I can no longer hold This calls for a walk across the woldA hobby is needed to ward off fair slumber I'll chew on this piece of mouldy lumber LOL --dang that hurt (these ever-so-fair lips [query to self, did *I* write that??] still melded and welded. Oh, MG, you are so cold. LMAO. Maeve |
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Post by Phalon on Jul 14, 2007 6:28:07 GMT -6
Hold on a second here, Maeve....
Who is pregnant? Just what has been happening in here while I wasn't looking.
Earworm of the morning: "Hot Cild in the City", by Nick one-hit-wonder Cilder....or Gilder...whichever.
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Post by fallenangel on Jul 14, 2007 8:07:12 GMT -6
gold
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Post by moonglum on Jul 14, 2007 13:29:32 GMT -6
fold
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Post by vox on Jul 14, 2007 13:32:39 GMT -6
Told
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Post by mabd on Jul 15, 2007 3:02:52 GMT -6
mold
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Post by Phalon on Jul 15, 2007 6:29:48 GMT -6
moll
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Post by fallenangel on Jul 15, 2007 11:10:19 GMT -6
mall
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Post by moonglum on Jul 15, 2007 12:35:00 GMT -6
call
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Post by mabd on Jul 15, 2007 17:14:56 GMT -6
pall
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Post by moonglum on Jul 15, 2007 23:56:51 GMT -6
ball
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Post by Phalon on Jul 16, 2007 5:59:28 GMT -6
bull
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Post by moonglum on Jul 16, 2007 13:16:16 GMT -6
full
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Post by Phalon on Jul 17, 2007 1:30:55 GMT -6
Full of bull, you pull my leg.
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Post by mabd on Jul 17, 2007 5:33:02 GMT -6
Full of bull, you pull my leg. At least you don't pay a poll tax for that privilege. Maeve |
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