I always liked the origin of the word "nickname"--it started out as "an ekename" in Middle English ("eke" meaning "also"), and then the consonant drifted from the article to the noun. Very cool.
Angel: Just admit it: you think you're gonna ride in, save the day, and sweep Buffy off her--Spike: Like you're not thinking the same thing. Angel: I'm already seeing somebody. Spike: What, dog girl?
'The Girl in Question'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kathy A - Mar 23, 2004 4:50:15 pm PST #1809 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Pix - Mar 23, 2004 4:56:22 pm PST #1810 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
"Pernickety" surprised me. No idea that extra "s" (as in persnickety) was not supposed to be there.
Oh no! I refuse. This is where I draw the line. I love the "s". The "s" makes it all snarky. The "s" allows you to relish saying that word -- "You're so per-SNICK-itey!"
In fact, that's what I'm being right now in refusing to accept this change. Persnickitey. Definitely not pernickitey.
Kathy A - Mar 23, 2004 5:05:17 pm PST #1811 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Pernickitey is NOT a word. Persnickitey is. I have spoken, and so it shall be. Bleah t sticks tongue at stupid rule-making people
Pix - Mar 23, 2004 5:05:57 pm PST #1812 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
sits with Kathy
deborah grabien - Mar 23, 2004 5:08:32 pm PST #1813 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Jeez, I had a basically European upbringing and I learned the damned word without an S. That is neither an attempt to rule out anyone else's S, nor a hanging matter.
JohnSweden - Mar 23, 2004 5:15:30 pm PST #1814 of 10002
I can't even.
Well, I just finished GGK's The Last Light of the Sun. I'm not horribly horribly broken like I usually am at the end of a Kay book, but that sense of longing and wistfulness that he always invokes at the end of a journey is there, just kind of sweet and sad, haunting in the background like music. It's a relief and a disappointment at the same time. It feels like he stayed his hand, but you could tell the strength was there, unexercised. I feel like he wanted to tell more of a story of ordinary people's lives, caught up in fate, then returned to life, so he didn't quite crank the power all the way up. Pretty damned cool.
Steph L. - Mar 23, 2004 5:17:39 pm PST #1815 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
That is neither an attempt to rule out anyone else's S
Thank god, because my name would look silly without my S....
Tho' I could switch to Teppy.
deborah grabien - Mar 23, 2004 5:18:19 pm PST #1816 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Pernicketeppy?
Steph L. - Mar 23, 2004 5:22:25 pm PST #1817 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Heh. I love it! Because I *am.* I may have to change my tagline, though I just switched to this one.
Pix - Mar 23, 2004 5:24:15 pm PST #1818 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Go Teppy! I love that. Change your tagline change your tagline change your tagline.
No pressure.