todayiamadaisy (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
todayiamadaisy) wrote2012-06-29 09:49 am
todayiamadaisy) wrote2012-06-29 09:49 am
Entry tags:
Love is Contraband
A heads-up: I am about to begin a book that Wikipedia describes as '[a] Victorian "sensation" novel, remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot'. They hooked me with 'elaborate' and reeled me in with 'implausible'. I'm sure you'll be hearing all about it.
I realised this week that I have been misnumbering my random words. I've done one more than I thought I had. So we're up to number...
9. Bopping
The verb 'to bop' has two definitions. The first is onomatopoeic, meaning to hit lightly (with, I imagine, a comedy police truncheon). The second comes from the jazz term, bebop, and means to dance to popular music. So there you go: watch out you don't bop someone while you're bopping.
I am oddly disappointed to discover that 'bop' is a new word that doesn't have a Middle English definition about tilling fields with three oxen, or gathering chestnuts with a special stick, or suchlike. I will bop the upper field today, Wymarda*. That sounds plausible, doesn't it?
This song seemed to be in the charts for half my childhood:
It's an Australian song, so probably most of you won't have heard it. I should warn you, it's one of our more deadly earworms. Also: Nicole Kidman and her hair!
* I looked up a list of names in the 1300s for that.**
** According to which, Alicia was the second most common female name for freeman's wives in Kent between 1302 and 1363, although the roll was recorded in Latin, so the women were probably called Alice. There was also one Anicia, but that's thought to be a typo*** for Auicia, the Latin form of Avice. Can you guess the most common name? Johanna (meaning Joan).
*** Or write-o, I suppose.
Next week: Oink
I realised this week that I have been misnumbering my random words. I've done one more than I thought I had. So we're up to number...
9. Bopping
The verb 'to bop' has two definitions. The first is onomatopoeic, meaning to hit lightly (with, I imagine, a comedy police truncheon). The second comes from the jazz term, bebop, and means to dance to popular music. So there you go: watch out you don't bop someone while you're bopping.
I am oddly disappointed to discover that 'bop' is a new word that doesn't have a Middle English definition about tilling fields with three oxen, or gathering chestnuts with a special stick, or suchlike. I will bop the upper field today, Wymarda*. That sounds plausible, doesn't it?
This song seemed to be in the charts for half my childhood:
It's an Australian song, so probably most of you won't have heard it. I should warn you, it's one of our more deadly earworms. Also: Nicole Kidman and her hair!
* I looked up a list of names in the 1300s for that.**
** According to which, Alicia was the second most common female name for freeman's wives in Kent between 1302 and 1363, although the roll was recorded in Latin, so the women were probably called Alice. There was also one Anicia, but that's thought to be a typo*** for Auicia, the Latin form of Avice. Can you guess the most common name? Johanna (meaning Joan).
*** Or write-o, I suppose.
Next week: Oink