Is "never" a contraction of "not ever"?

About 1000 years ago, it was: [link]

[Middle English, from Old English nǣfre : ne, not + ǣfre, ever.]

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The etymology of never:

Middle English, from Old English nǣfre, from ne not + ǣfre ever

Barb, I think she was just being snippy and her half-assed apology doesn't excuse that. I'm on an yahoo group with friends who often link to stuff I've seen (mostly from here). They've never been bitchy with me because I say I've seen it.

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philology x-post with Scola!

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{{{Barb}}}

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Have fun this weekend omnis. I'm sure the only thing needed to make it all work perfectly is the addition of a bunch of expensive microphones. Not that those aren't a good piece of the puzzle, but they are just one piece.

I'm happy to play with expensive shiny tools. But the problems are thus:
1) The room is designed for non amplified, spoken word shows
2) our speakers suck. Cheap speakers made for rock. You really have to give a lot of umph to get full range out of them
3) when you play loud sounds from multiple speakers, the room gives you lovely standing waves in the middle frequencies, which the director/music director/composer/arranger folks think are the mics distorting, even when I say its the room resonating. Why listen to the sound guy?
4) our mixer is a young, inexperienced punk who doesn't take notes very well, and will probably get all emo on me and need to chain smoke when the Music Director starts giving him orchestration mix notes. also, he tends to mix too loud. he also doesn't grasp the concept of take this section back some, so you have room to swell at the end. If we wanted the same volume the whole show, we'd put an automix in line and compress the hell out of it.
5) we have a lovely acoustic orchestra, 6 piece chamber jobber, and the set designer & director choose to squirrel them off stage behind 3 feet of concrete, so we HAVE to mic the hell out of them, and the only way they are heard in the house is through those crappy speakers that you have to turn up loud to make sound half decent that then causes the room to resonate. (are we sensing a spiral of futility here?)

ugg. Thankfully the Artistic Director has a sense of a lot of the issues, pointed them out even, and knows that this rental won't solve all the problems.

Sorry for the ranty tech bandwidth.

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That reminds me of this commercial, which I love.

awwwwww! My dad was totally that guy. I particularly like the way he really looked in the aisle. I've told you the "period! period! period!" story. My dad rocked.

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Which, really? Didn't make me feel any better because again, I felt like she pointing out that I have all this free time she doesn't have and while she may not have meant it, it had the net result of making me feel like a futless loser.

Honestly? I don't think it's a "whoo you have so much free time" so much as it is something that I'm going to guess plagues all buffistas from time to time - we're on the internet, lots, and we link each other to all the cool stuff, so we have generally seen anything of note before someone not so internet-inclined passes it along. So while I don't think you were or are in any way obnoxious, I do sometimes try to make sure I'm not stepping on someone's squee when they link me to something that we've already hashed to death over here four days earlier.

(And seriously - that video was all over the news last weekend, so it is old stuff regardless of how internet addticted one may or may not be. So extra not-obnoxious points for you.)

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What brenda said. But still, {{Barb}} anyway!

Last Friday, my sister sent me the Amazon link to the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies book, but I had to tell her that we'd been talking about that here for a few weeks already. I think she had the same reaction that your friend did, but she kept it low-key.

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I love those Middle English words that transmogrify into other words that we use all the time!

My favorites are those that have the "n" from the article "an" drift over to the vowel-beginning noun that they're modifying, so that the new words begin with the "n," such as "newt" and "nickname." "Apron" did the same thing, only in reverse (it was originially "napron" from the same source as "napkin," but the "n" drifted back to the article "a" instead).

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Bacon Sandwich Really Does Cure a Hangover

It's true! Science says so!

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