AllardChardon
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A happy weekend wish to all;
Here is an odd one;
polysemy - noun multiplicity of meaning
Here is an odd one;
polysemy - noun multiplicity of meaning
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I am not, neither.For a thread that is too good to go moribund, even temporarily:
apocrisiary: one who knows or can locate answers to questions posed by other individuals.
Example: Weird Harold is an excellent apocrisiary.
I must mention this is a backwards thread, working from Z towards A.
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Poor Clare - noun a nun of an order founded early in the 13th century at Assisi by St. Clare under the direction of St. Francis
Going back a few pages...
I had delivered today a statuette of Santa Chiara (Saint Clare) that I bought on eBay for the minimum and only bid. It is of light brown resin about 8 inches high and unlike the kitsch statuettes on sale at St Winifride's Well it is a realistic portrayal of a lady in a nun's costume.
St Clare is apparently the patron saint of television. Perhaps I should put her on top of mine?
Unfortunately, I no longer have any televisions that are thick enough to put anything atop one. At least not anything bigger than 2cm at the base.I thought English Law required that a penguin be atop any telly...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgoRDYZQMrQ
Unfortunately, I no longer have any televisions that are thick enough to put anything atop one. At least not anything bigger than 2cm at the base.
Why did an electronic device, like the television, need a Patron Saint anyway? Is there a patron saint of automobiles, refrigerators, or ovens?
I've never heard of a patron saint of cars (St. Yugo, anyone?) or kitchen appliances, but, according to Wikipedia, Isidore of Seville has been canonized as patron saint of the Internet, computer users, and computer technicians. He never told the world whether he preferred Macs or PCs, since he died twelve centuries before even ENIAC was built.
St. Lorenzo- is patron of boiled foods ( because of his martyrdom
And that raises the question: is Jeanne d'Arc the patron saint of charcoal broiled foods?
Thanks, Trysail, for the update on the top posters. I do enjoy this thread and all the posters that contribute, often or seldom.
I have encountered this next one in the National Geographic on global warming issues;
polynya - noun an area of open water in sea ice