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1962-1964

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ABC #109


  • Vocabularies: galantine, lamasery, miscibility, cucking stool

  • Nurseryland: Baa baa black sheep, Winken blinked and nod, straw sticks and bricks, Jack and the beanstalk

  • Origins and Derivations: to rat, dago, Catherine wheel, hussy

  • French or Latin expressions: in vino veritas, sans culotte, soi disant, pis allet

  • “Revenge is a kind of wild justice” (DN) / “I’m getting married in the morning” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS



ABC, 29-Jul-2004

27:41, 12987, m





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1962-1964

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ABC #110


  • Vocabularies: gharry, cryptasthesia, shako, cuisse

  • Greek Mythology: Baucis and Philemon, Daedalus and Icarus, Orpheus and Eurydice, Jason and Medea

  • Origins and Derivations: a toast, pass the buck, skylarking, slewed

  • Literature and Drama: Anthony Trollope, Moliere, Dickens, George Eliot

  • “I am a citizen of the world” (FM) / “I don’t want to play in your yard” (DN) /

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS



ABC, 05-Aug-2004

27:34, 12926, m





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1962-1964

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ABC #111


  • Vocabularies: hydromel, ultimogeniture, nidification, opsimath

  • Gulliver’s Travels: Glumdalclitch, big Endians and little Endians, Huhnhnyms and yahoos, strulbrugs

  • Verse and Poetry: Rupert Brook Granchester, Kathleen O’Vorneen, Health unto his Majesty, Greensleeves

  • Who/What/When/Where: Mr. Rochester, de Winter, Study in Scarlet, David Copperfield

  • “In the great right of an excessive wrong” (DN) / “I’m going to wash that man right out of my hair” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS



ABC, 12-Aug-2004

27:33, 12919, m





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1962-1964

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ABC #112


  • Vocabularies: jacobus, herbarium, mavorneen, barbican

  • Literary references: Cooper on England, Shaw on marriage, Wordsworth on Westminster Bridge, Thackeray on Napoleon

  • Origins and Derivations: with a jaundiced eye, lantern jawed, to peg out, a dead heat

  • Ex words: ex gratia, ex officio, ex libris, ex partie

  • “The bigger they come, the harder they fall” (DN) / “I have nothing to declare except my genius” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS



ABC, 19-Aug-2004

27:40, 12971, m





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1962-1964

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ABC #113


  • Vocabularies: hebetude, scut, mezzanine, herby

  • Reason Why: feud in Lorna Doone, tortoise win the race, why did Rip van Winkle leave home, Caesar mistrust Cassius

  • Verse and Poetry: William Allingham Faeries, Dobson Rose Leaves, Herrick To Anthea, Browning Home Thoughts from Abroad

  • Origins and Derivations: penicillin, gout, to go through the mill, a man with no scruples

  • “And so to bed” (FM) / “There is a happy land far far away” (DN)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS



ABC, 26-Aug-2004

27:31, 12903, m





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1962-1964

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ABC #114


  • Vocabularies: dressage, barcarole, proponent, windage

  • 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

  • Origins and Derivations: mealy mouthed, etiquette, mad as a hatter, to pay your footing

  • Definitions: marriage, music, applied science, women

  • “Take a pair of sparkling eyes” (DN) / “It was roses, roses all the way” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS



ABC, 02-Sep-2004

27:31, 12907, m





MH D/L

G

1962-1964

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ABC #113


  • Vocabularies:

  • Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim

  • Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage

  • Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day

  • “” (DN) / “” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS



ABC, 09-Sep-2004

27:37, 12793, m





MH D/L




1962-1964

?

ABC #113


  • Vocabularies:

  • Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim

  • Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage

  • Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day

  • “” (DN) / “” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS



ABC, 16-Sep-2004

27:37, 12793, m





MH D/L




1962-1964

?

ABC #113


  • Vocabularies:

  • Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim

  • Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage

  • Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day

  • “” (DN) / “” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS





MH D/L




1962-1964

?

ABC #113


  • Vocabularies:

  • Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim

  • Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage

  • Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day

  • “” (DN) / “” (FM)






MH D/L




1962-1964

?

ABC #113


  • Vocabularies:

  • Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim

  • Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage

  • Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day

  • “” (DN) / “” (FM)






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17-Jan-1968


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