Saturday, April 7, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Saturday, March 17, 2012
spond
Mrs has found – playing Word with Friends I can only assume – that you can respond, but you cannot spond . . . that is, etymologically: spond could have come to English from Latin spondere thru the Old French, as did respondere, but it did not.
It is a good thing, I think, for it would enable a false declension . . . spanned, spend, spinned, spond, spund, spynd?
We just think its funny.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
The Dragon of Pruhonicky Sady - Prague
oh, it gets is a little confused between the legends of St. George and the history of real events, but there's a story of a dragon slaying in this history, which now we feel was a giant crocodile that had somehow wandered so far afield that it started terrorizing the residents of the ancestral czech farmlands . . . .
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