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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on November 2, 2009, 7:23 am
NightMist wrote:
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> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:03:21 -0800 (PST), "Dr. Zachary Smith"
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>> On Nov 1, 2:02=A0pm, nightmi...@gmail.com (NightMist) wrote:
>>> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 05:36:09 -0800 (PST), "Dr. Zachary Smith"
>>>> On Nov 1, 6:07=3DA0am, nightmi...@gmail.com (NightMist) wrote:
>>>>> Maybe next year we should add in some muffin mixes or those tubes of
>>>>> soup mix.
>>>> Or you could try some canned broccoli, cauliflower, or brussels
>>>> sprouts and see how far they go... =A08^P
>>> Oh please that kind of stuff winds up as mathoms even at the food
>>> pantries!
>> Oh, come on... you had to know I was kidding you back!
>> ...And who besides you and I know what the hell a mathom is
>> anyway? :-)
>> Doc, from the mathom house at Michel Delving...
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>
> Hmmm....Good question.
> Let us find out.
>
> It is just one of those words like "grok" or "muggle" that filled a
> niche lacking in english, and just became part of our standard house
> parlance.
>
> NightMist
>
Me. I've known what a mathom is for about 47 years. There are a couple
here at the back of the 'swallows everything' cupboard...
--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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Posted by NightMist on November 2, 2009, 1:36 pm
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:23:53 +0000, Kate XXXXXX
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>NightMist wrote:
>> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:03:21 -0800 (PST), "Dr. Zachary Smith"
>>> ...And who besides you and I know what the hell a mathom is
>>> anyway? :-)
>>> Doc, from the mathom house at Michel Delving...
>>
>>
>> Hmmm....Good question.
>> Let us find out.
>>
>> It is just one of those words like "grok" or "muggle" that filled a
>> niche lacking in english, and just became part of our standard house
>> parlance.
>>
>>
>Me. I've known what a mathom is for about 47 years. There are a couple
>here at the back of the 'swallows everything' cupboard...
Darling girl you would have been one of my first picks for somebody
here who knew that word.
You would also be one of my first picks for people who know what words
Shakespeare invented, people who know what crepuscular, tyro, and
chary mean, and the number one most likely to slap me if I called you
an artless worsted stocking mimping gixy. Which by the way I would
never do.
NightMist
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Legolas is my house elf
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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on November 2, 2009, 1:57 pm
NightMist wrote:
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> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:23:53 +0000, Kate XXXXXX
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>> NightMist wrote:
>>> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:03:21 -0800 (PST), "Dr. Zachary Smith"
>>>> ...And who besides you and I know what the hell a mathom is
>>>> anyway? :-)
>>>> Doc, from the mathom house at Michel Delving...
>>> Hmmm....Good question.
>>> Let us find out.
>>> It is just one of those words like "grok" or "muggle" that filled a
>>> niche lacking in english, and just became part of our standard house
>>> parlance.
>> Me. I've known what a mathom is for about 47 years. There are a couple
>> here at the back of the 'swallows everything' cupboard...
> Darling girl you would have been one of my first picks for somebody
> here who knew that word.
>
> You would also be one of my first picks for people who know what words
> Shakespeare invented, people who know what crepuscular, tyro, and
> chary mean, and the number one most likely to slap me if I called you
> an artless worsted stocking mimping gixy. Which by the way I would
> never do.
>
> NightMist
Giggle...
I also know fushionless, shookly, cariwheekit, and swithering. And
mardy, mithering, havers, and what fents are.
I love the less ordinary corners of English vocabulary, and those words
and phrases that get left as mathoms on the dusty drawers of usage.
--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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Posted by Sartorresartus on November 4, 2009, 8:15 am
The Official Title of the person who looked after the stuff in the
Board Games Society at Durham University is/was The Keeper of the
Mathoms. A name coined by Kate's DH in the late 70s. Since then it
has been in common parlance amongst us.
My favourite Shakespeare insult was always, "The devil damn thee
black, thou cream-faced loon!" which seems to say it all really!
I love words pilfered from sources unthought of and used in families.
They have a quality about them that always makes me smile.
Nel
(Gadget Queen)
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> >NightMist wrote:
> >> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:03:21 -0800 (PST), "Dr. Zachary Smith"
> >>> ...And who besides you and I know what the hell a mathom is
> >>> anyway? =A0:-)
> >>> Doc, from the mathom house at Michel Delving...
> >> Hmmm....Good question.
> >> Let us find out.
> >> It is just one of those words like "grok" or "muggle" that filled a
> >> niche lacking in english, and just became part of our standard house
> >> parlance.
> >Me. =A0I've known what a mathom is for about 47 years. =A0There are a co=
uple
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> >here at the back of the 'swallows everything' cupboard...
> Darling girl you would have been one of my first picks for somebody
> here who knew that word.
> You would also be one of my first picks for people who know what words
> Shakespeare invented, people who know what crepuscular, tyro, and
> chary mean, and the number one most likely to slap me if I called you
> an artless worsted stocking mimping gixy. =A0Which by the way I would
> never do.
> NightMist
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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on November 4, 2009, 9:04 am
Sartorresartus wrote:
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> The Official Title of the person who looked after the stuff in the
> Board Games Society at Durham University is/was The Keeper of the
> Mathoms. A name coined by Kate's DH in the late 70s. Since then it
> has been in common parlance amongst us.
Oh, *he* started that one, did he? Why am I not terribly surprised... ;)
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> My favourite Shakespeare insult was always, "The devil damn thee
> black, thou cream-faced loon!" which seems to say it all really!
Big Sis coined the term 'swaybelly' when she was quite small. Unkind,
but descriptive...
I preferred the stage directions: 'Enter a bloody child' has resonance,
but I think we have friends who really appreciate 'Exit persued by a bear'!
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> I love words pilfered from sources unthought of and used in families.
> They have a quality about them that always makes me smile.
We have a fair few in my family, largely Scots terms from my parents
childhood playground speak. These are levened by Lincolnshire terms,
and those of Scarborough.
The wonderful thing about the English language is that it allows us to
preserve old words and meanings as well as develop new ones. And it's a
bit of a Borg language, stealing and assimilating terms from any other
language it encounters.
To return for a moment to literature: we had a term for a while when I
was in the Lower VI at school: 'Elfed'. When something in the art
department came out particularly delicate and beautiful, we said we'd
'elfed' it. Oddly, I used this term somewhere recently, and the person
I was with knew EXACTLY what I meant. We had a bit of a thing for all
things elf in those days, and not all of them were JRR's elves. We also
had a passion for Lord Dunsanay and William Morris.
--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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>> On Nov 1, 2:02=A0pm, nightmi...@gmail.com (NightMist) wrote:
>>> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 05:36:09 -0800 (PST), "Dr. Zachary Smith"
>>>> On Nov 1, 6:07=3DA0am, nightmi...@gmail.com (NightMist) wrote:
>>>>> Maybe next year we should add in some muffin mixes or those tubes of
>>>>> soup mix.
>>>> Or you could try some canned broccoli, cauliflower, or brussels
>>>> sprouts and see how far they go... =A08^P
>>> Oh please that kind of stuff winds up as mathoms even at the food
>>> pantries!
>> Oh, come on... you had to know I was kidding you back!
>> ...And who besides you and I know what the hell a mathom is
>> anyway? :-)
>> Doc, from the mathom house at Michel Delving...
>
>
> Hmmm....Good question.
> Let us find out.
>
> It is just one of those words like "grok" or "muggle" that filled a
> niche lacking in english, and just became part of our standard house
> parlance.
>
> NightMist
>