i am going on a cruise with my family for the next week. i do not think i will have internet access but i will write down amazing things to tell you lucky people who read my diary when i return.
Have a safe holiday season.
byeness
oh ps, this is funny
A.Word.A.Day--sennight
sennight (SEN-yt) noun
A week.
[From Middle English, from Old English seofon nihta, from seofon
(seven) +
nihta, plural of niht (night).]
Fortnight is a cousin of today's word. Twice as long as a sennight,
it's a compressed form of "fourteen night". -Anu
"CHORUS:
For now sad Charles unto the throne is come.
First his drunk grandam fell down in a fit and died,
And then a sennight later his
Mother Queen
Bit by a rabid Corgi ran naked through the streets,
Froth'd at the mouth and breath'd her last.
So Charles was crown'd; but now the angry mob
Demand that he be brought to Tyburn Tree -
Such is the curse on all odd-numbered Charles'."
Emily Sheffield, Jackdaw, The Guardian (London), May 29, 1996.
i couldn't resist, sorry
byeness.
