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  1. mawnansmiff

    What Are You Listening To? - December, 2024

    Ha! Not quite panoramic, I'd guess in total I have acquired about 30-40 jazz albums in the last 8 months or so, not really huge. My other albums however, rock/blues etc total roughly 450. Jay.
  2. mawnansmiff

    What Are You Listening To? - December, 2024

    New additions to my jazz collection arrived in the post the other day. Here we have Jimmy Giuffre and his boys doing what they do best. Jay.
  3. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    I bear no grudges at all, well I do but only to certain family members who are stitching me up but hey ho. Many of my ancestors were Calvinists too, particularly on my paternal side. Jay.
  4. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Wow, I remember that. Also called dog Latin. We had great fun with that as kids. Much easier to learn than proper Latin and once you understand the basics, you can communicate pretty well very quickly. Jay.
  5. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Tell me when I ever said that I did use Latin, simple answer is that I didn't, not once. All I said was that I had Latic classes at school. You are clearly quickly reading up on British history as the sporadic bursts of data you are spouting clearly prove which I find both humorous and sad at...
  6. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    What I meant Warren was it was never used as an everyday language outside of church. That is why I specifically stated it was never lingua franca in America. Did you ever walk into your local grocery store and ask for a packet of biscuits in Latin? Did the grocer reply to you in Latin? Jay.
  7. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Far better is volume 7, Hat-Intervacuum. This is the OED informing us what lurks underneath a Stetson :LOL: Jay.
  8. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    It was in response to Americans bringing up oddities of us Brits. I just mentioned the peculiar habit of some Americans using Latin as mottoes etc when in actuality it is not and never has been a spoken language there. Simple as that puffy Jay.
  9. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    The Romans brought much with them, flushing toilets, proper roads, underfloor heating etc etc. Here is a member of your conquering force. I wonder how long before you elect him Commander in Chief as you most surely will :eek: Jay.
  10. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Not in the least prof, you started the thread to bash the Brits so don't be too surprised when one particular Brit hits back. You really shouldn't give it if you can't take it, that's just not cricket ;) BTW, I dropped Latin after a while and took tech drawing instead as I (wrongly) thought...
  11. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Ecclesiastical/liturgical Latin and Classical Latin are not the same thing, though granted, they are similar enough. But my point was Latin has never been spoken in America as lingua franca. If not for the Catholic Church it would be pretty much unknown other than in older texts. Jay.
  12. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    And that's another oddity about Americans, they love to use Latin as a motto or as a kind of linguistic 'decoration' yet Latin was never spoken in America and I very much doubt many Americans can even speak Latin let alone translate a simple motto. It's just for show. At school I was taught...
  13. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Dictionary talk is never boring ;) The no name guitar I bought from Argos....nothing special but it has a lovely tone. Jay.
  14. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    I had a bookcase built to house my 20 volume OED Second Edition (published circa 1987), the same as in the picture I posted earlier. Try to keep up prof :rolleyes: I also own a first edition set, all original and really quite a prized possession. Seen below with the later supplements. Just...
  15. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Nah, OED 3 (which is still being worked on) will never be printed. They say it would be at least 30 maybe 40 volumes so impractical for anyone other than institutions. I am by the way a contributor to OED3 but so are many hundreds of others. It's available online for a fee but if your local...
  16. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    ...because I already know everything". There you go professor, I finished your sentence for you puffy Jay.
  17. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    That is very true.....and also very sad. Nowadays everything is searched for online (the quality of the results being very questionable in many instances). I personally much prefer the tactility of a physical book though I do also use online resources for my sins. I remember well the huge...
  18. mawnansmiff

    What Are You Listening To? - December, 2024

    Though released in 1977 I've only just got around to buying the Rolling Stones live double set Love You Live. Decent live gig but not quite on the level of Get Yer Ta Yas Out in my view. Jay.
  19. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    The OED is exactly that, a descriptive dictionary and not a proscriptive dictionary. It tells you the current usage of words and their usage over the life of any given word. It does not (as some folk believe) tell you how a word is to be spoken. Jay.
  20. mawnansmiff

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Now language is an interesting difference betwixt the US and Britain. The epitome of English lexicographic endeavour (in printed form) would be the magisterial OED Second Edition. Twenty large, beautifully bound quarto volumes, 59 million words spread over no fewer than 21,730 pages. It took...
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