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Re: Tiffany problems
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 8:47 am
by Moose-tache
If we assume Roentgen had a hand fetish, the time gap between the X-ray gun and the horny R-ray gun is zero.
Re: Tiffany problems
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:01 am
by hwhatting
Sometimes a hand X-ray is just a hand x-ray.
Re: Tiffany problems
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 8:37 am
by Raphael
I learned relatively recently that prefaces to books were already common in the first decades and generations after the introduction of movable type printing to Europe. Before I learned that, I would have guessed that they were a 19th century or perhaps an 18th century invention. Somehow, they "feel" so "modern" to me.
Re: Tiffany problems
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:38 am
by bradrn
Henry IV, Part 1, Act III, Scene 1:
Shakespeare wrote:
GLENDOWER: Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command the devil.
HOTSPUR: And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil [...]
I never expected 'coz' to date back to 1597. (Wiktionary also has a quote from
Romeo and Juliet, in fact.)
Re: Tiffany problems
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 10:13 am
by hwhatting
bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:38 am
I never expected 'coz' to date back to 1597. (Wiktionary also has a quote from
Romeo and Juliet, in fact.)
Yes, Shakespeare uses it all the time. I must say that I've probably seen it more often in Shakespeare than in modern texts...
Re: Tiffany problems
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:43 pm
by bradrn
I just discovered the existence of Queen
Roxana, died 310 BCE.
Re: Tiffany problems
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2024 7:16 pm
by bradrn
bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:38 am
I never expected 'coz' to date back to 1597.
And now, a year later, I have the reverse example: ‘sibling’ dates all the way back to… 1903.
(Well, it had existed in Old English, but by Middle English it just meant ‘relative’, before dying out entirely. 1903 was when the Old English / modern meaning was re-introduced.
Wang 2004 offers this quotation from as late as 1931: ‘The word “sib” or “sibling” is coming into use in genetics in the English-speaking world’.)
Re: Tiffany problems
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2024 4:24 am
by Ares Land
bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2024 7:16 pm
bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:38 am
I never expected 'coz' to date back to 1597.
And now, a year later, I have the reverse example: ‘sibling’ dates all the way back to… 1903.
(Well, it had existed in Old English, but by Middle English it just meant ‘relative’, before dying out entirely. 1903 was when the Old English / modern meaning was re-introduced.
Wang 2004 offers this quotation from as late as 1931: ‘The word “sib” or “sibling” is coming into use in genetics in the English-speaking world’.)
I didn't know that!