Archive for December 24, 2005
For the Lord shall shod us in hooves of bronze and horns of iron[...] --Hitherby Dragons: Remnants (III/IV) "shod" is actually the past tense of "shoe," so "shall shod"...
'Puddleglum,' they've said, 'you're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits.[...]' --The Silver Chair, by C. S. Lewis, written around 1953; p, 76 of the 1994...
I keep coming across new-to-me words, unusual phrases and constructions, and other small items of potential philological interest. And I don't really have anywhere to put 'em. So I'm gonna...