Last Edited: 18202517-AugMayNovJun-20087

ABC #109

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  Vocabularies: galantine, lamasery, miscibility, cucking stool
  
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  Nurseryland: Baa baa black sheep, Winken blinked and nod, straw sticks and bricks, Jack and the beanstalk
  
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  Origins and Derivations: to rat, dago, Catherine wheel, hussy
  
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  French or Latin expressions: in vino veritas, sans culotte, soi disant, pis allet
  
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  “Revenge is a kind of wild justice” (DN) / “I’m getting married in the morning” (FM)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:41, 12987, m

ABC #110

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  Vocabularies: gharry, cryptasthesia, shako, cuisse
  
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  Greek Mythology: Baucis and Philemon, Daedalus and Icarus, Orpheus and Eurydice, Jason and Medea
  
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  Origins and Derivations: a toast, pass the buck, skylarking, slewed
  
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  Literature and Drama: Anthony Trollope, Moliere, Dickens, George Eliot
  
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  “I am a citizen of the world” (FM) / “I don’t want to play in your yard” (DN) /
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:34, 12926, m

ABC #111

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  Vocabularies: hydromel, ultimogeniture, nidification, opsimath
  
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  Gulliver’s Travels: Glumdalclitch, big Endians and little Endians, Huhnhnyms and yahoos, strulbrugs
  
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  Verse and Poetry: Rupert Brook Granchester, Kathleen O’Vorneen, Health unto his Majesty, Greensleeves
  
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  Who/What/When/Where: Mr. Rochester, de Winter, Study in Scarlet, David Copperfield
  
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  “In the great right of an excessive wrong” (DN) / “I’m going to wash that man right out of my hair” (FM)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:33, 12919, m

ABC #112

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  Vocabularies: jacobus, herbarium, mavorneen, barbican
  
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  Literary references: Cooper on England, Shaw on marriage, Wordsworth on Westminster Bridge, Thackeray on Napoleon
  
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  Origins and Derivations: with a jaundiced eye, lantern jawed, to peg out, a dead heat
  
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  Ex words: ex gratia, ex officio, ex libris, ex partie
  
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  “The bigger they come, the harder they fall” (DN) / “I have nothing to declare except my genius” (FM)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:40, 12971, m

ABC #113

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  Vocabularies: hebetude, scut, mezzanine, herby
  
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  Reason Why: feud in Lorna Doone, tortoise win the race, why did Rip van Winkle leave home, Caesar mistrust Cassius
  
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  Verse and Poetry: William Allingham Faeries, Dobson Rose Leaves, Herrick To Anthea, Browning Home Thoughts from Abroad
  
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  Origins and Derivations: penicillin, gout, to go through the mill, a man with no scruples
  
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  “And so to bed” (FM) / “There is a happy land far far away” (DN)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:31, 12903, m

ABC #114

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  Vocabularies: dressage, barcarole, proponent, windage
  
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  Reason Why: Don Quixote tilts at windmills, Tom Jones is adopted and then dismissed, Jane Eyre finally marries Mr. Rochester, Queen Guinevere hie to a nunnery
  
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  Origins and Derivations: mealy mouthed, etiquette, mad as a hatter, to pay your footing
  
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  Definitions: marriage, music, applied science, women
  
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  “Take a pair of sparkling eyes” (DN) / “It was roses, roses all the way” (FM)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:31, 12907, m

ABC #113

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  Vocabularies:
  
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  Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim
  
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  Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage
  
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  Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day
  
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  “” (DN) / “” (FM)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:37, 12793, m

ABC #113

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  Vocabularies:
  
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  Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim
  
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  Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage
  
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  Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day
  
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  “” (DN) / “” (FM)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:37, 12793, m

ABC #113

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  Vocabularies:
  
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  Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim
  
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  Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage
  
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  Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day
  
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  “” (DN) / “” (FM)
  

JL

EJM, TS

ABC #113

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  Vocabularies:
  
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  Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim
  
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  Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage
  
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  Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day
  
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  “” (DN) / “” (FM)
  

ABC #113

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  Vocabularies:
  
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  Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim
  
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  Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage
  
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  Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day
  
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  “” (DN) / “” (FM)