Everybody’s always got something to add.
I recently saw this list of women’s names
Ann
Anne
Annes
Anais
Anna
Anni
Ani
Annie
Annika
Agnieszka
Ann is a good solid English name taken from the Hebrew Hannah, and means ‘kind, helpful.’ The French language insists that all nouns have gender, and makes Ann feminine by adding an ‘e’ to make Anne. Welsh speakers must think that there’s more than one, because, to them, it becomes Annes (annis). At least one Spanish-Cuban/French woman also pronounced her name annis, but spelled it Anais. Languages like German and Spanish have no silent letters, so the ‘e’ is pronounced, and Anne soon becomes Anna. Languages like Italian converted it to Anni, all except for the unfortunately-named, Italian-American singer, Ani DiFranco. The construction rules of the original Latin say that one is an anus – ani means ‘many assholes.’ Some people can’t just leave it short and simple. A landlady of ours had a son she wisely named Paul, but insisted on calling him Paulie. I thought she had a parrot. English soon had females named Annie. Languages like Swedish and Dutch can be poly-syllabic to indicate diminutive and feminine, and the name became Annika. Polish is a ‘busy’ language. It took Annika, and married it to the similar Greek name Agnew, to create Agnieszka, which, aside from meaning ‘kind and helpful,’ also means ‘little lamb.’
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Every time I open my mouth, some damned idiot starts talking.
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After only 5 ½ years at this blogging thing, I finally achieved 1000 followers on April 22nd – and again on April 24th – and, once more on April 25th. WordPress has been doing some home redecorating, and the previous two weeks were inexplicably up and down. I’d go to bed with 998, and get up to 997. 999? No, still just 998. 😀 Finally, the magic number was reached.
I thanked and congratulated the gent who finally broke the bank….and got up the next day to 999 again. Twice more it happened before I got two followers in one day, and haven’t looked back. I’d kinda like to know why. Were my followers dying, – getting kicked off WordPress – or intentionally un-following me? I know, don’t ask questions you don’t want to know the answer to.
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In my blog-post Words, I included the word ‘lagniappe’. Recently, a little 10-page, throw-away community newspaper has added a food and cooking column. The author has titled it; La Yapa –Bolivian phrase for that little extra gift given in gratitude by market vendors. I noticed the common linguistic ancestor. Did you?
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For our ‘Good Christian’ friends, Mark Twain said that; It’s easier to fool someone, than to convince them that they have been fooled.
The English surname ‘Bullard’ means – son of a monk or priest.
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Recently, at about 2:30 AM, my son’s cell phone vibrated to an incoming message. Sent from a phone with a number one digit higher than his, the screen read, “Hi, I’m your text-door neighbor.” That’s one random way of meeting new people. I think I still prefer the drunken butt-dial.
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After insisting that I never receive any interesting spam comments, I downloaded the above, whose occasional strangely sized and shaped letters do not publish as they originally showed. I fail to see how anyone would think that an excerpt from an illiterate account of a young family’s trip could induce anyone to open it, or access the site.
I won’t waste the time, but I could have some fun correcting all the spelling, punctuation and construction errors. I do think that it would be a great prompt for a short-story post. Anybody want to have a go at a Flash Fiction-type challenge and finish it? 😕
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