Shakespeare liked to use the word passing as an adverb modifying
adjectives, meaning “surpassingly, exceedingly.”
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22passing+strange%22+%22passing+gentle%22+adverb+surpassingly
Find terms such as passing strange,
passing excellent, passing welcome, passing gentle and passing courteous at http://archive.org/stream/worksofshakespea19038shak/worksofshakespea19038shak_djvu.txt
Pell-mell (usually hyphenated, but sometimes
spelled pellmell) works
(1) as an adverb meaning in a confused or reckless manner,
and (2) as an adjective meaning confused or disordered in action.
The English word comes from the French pêle-mêle. The French word is nearly a millennium old,
and its exact origins are mysterious—though the second syllable is likely
related to the verb mesler,
which means to mix. http://grammarist.com/words/pell-mell/
Perfect Rhyme,
also called exact rhyme, full rhyme means two or more words or
phrases share the same last stressed vowel and all sounds following
that vowel. Examples: towel / vowel, aboard / ignored Older poetry used considerably more perfect
rhyme than current poetry does.
Slant rhyme,
also called half rhyme, off rhyme, near rhyme is when either the stressed
vowel or the sounds following it differ and don’t match. Slant rhyme is
prevalent in current poetry.
Examples: bite
/ fire (only the long i sound, the stressed vowel, matches;
consonants differ)
courage/bunker (only
match is the UR sound of our and er).
Slant rhyme can also use different vowels, but same consonants. Examples: sound, sand; blade, blood; food, fade.
A small confectionery morsel that can be consumed in one or two bites is called a
petit four. The name literally means
“small oven” and comes from the way in which the tiny treats were traditionally
cooked. During the 1800s, an oven was
little more than a large stone cabinet with a fire lit underneath it. Under these circumstances, temperature
control was essentially non-existent. As
a result, French bakers had only two oven “settings”: blazing hot, and cooling down. The blazing hot setting was reached when the
coals under the oven were burning at maximum capacity. This mode of cooking was referred to as
“grand four” – literally, “big oven” – and was used to cook meats. Once the fire under the stone oven was
extinguished, much of the heat was retained.
Consequently it took a very long time for these ovens to cool down. This cooling process, when the oven still
retained some latent heat, was referred to as petit four. The trapped heat was just enough to cook
tiny, individual pastries – which eventually assumed the name of the type of
oven they were cooked in. Traditional
petits fours are divided into four categories:
sec, glaces, frais and deguises. http://courses.escoffieronline.com/tiny-pastries-the-petit-four-story/
Phrasal verbs are usually two-word phrases
consisting of verb + adverb or verb + preposition. Find a
list of about 200 verbal phrases, including ask around and catch up, at https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/phrasal-verbs-list.htm
As
easy as pie is a popular colloquial idiom which
is used to describe a task or experience as pleasurable and simple. The idiom does not refer to the making of a
pie, but rather to the act of consuming a pie ("as easy as eating a
pie") which is usually a simple and pleasurable experience. The phrase is often interchanged with piece of cake,
which shares the same connotation. There
are some claims that the phrase originated in the 1920s from the Indigenous
Australian expression "pie
at" or "pie on" from the Maori term
"pai" which means "good", but it was used in the Saturday Evening Post in 1913 (22 Feb.), and in 1910 by Zane Grey in
"The
Young Forester", and is probably
a development of the phrase "like eating pie", first recorded in
"Sporting Life" in 1886. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_easy_as_pie
PIN
number, ATM machine, SAT tests, ISBN number end with the word represented by the preceding
initial. Find a list of such redundancies at
In audio engineering, electronics, physics, and many other fields, the color of
a noise signal (a
signal produced by a stochastic process)
is generally understood to be some broad characteristic of its power spectrum. Different "colors" of noise have
significantly different properties: for
example, as audio signals they
will sound differently to human ears, and as images they will have a visibly different texture. This sense of "color" for noise
signals is similar to the concept of timbre in music (which
is also called "tone color"); however the latter is almost always
used for sound,
and may consider very detailed features of the spectrum.
The practice of naming kinds of noise after colors started with "white noise", a signal whose spectrum has
equal power within any equal interval of
frequencies. That name was given by
analogy with "white light",
which was (incorrectly) assumed to have such a "flat" power spectrum
over the visible range. Other color
names, like "pink", "red", and "blue" were then
given to noise with other spectral profiles, often (but not always) in
reference to the color of light with similar spectra. Some of those names have standard definitions
in certain disciplines, while others are very informal and poorly defined. Read more and see graphics at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise
'As pleased as Punch' (very pleased) derives from the puppet character Mr.
Punch. Punch's name itself derives from
Polichinello (spelled various ways, including Punchinello), a puppet used in
the 16th century Commedia dell'arte.
In performance, the grotesque Punch character is depicted as
self-satisfied and delighted with his evil deeds, squawking "That's the
way to do it!" whenever he dispatches another victim. The show had an Italian origin but has been
much changed over the years. It began in
Britain at the time of the restoration of the monarchy in the 17th century.
The earliest known record of the phrase 'as pleased as Punch' is from William
Gifford's satires The Baviad, and Maeviad, 1797: Oh! how my fingers itch to pull thy
nose! As pleased as Punch, I'd hold it
in my gripe. 'As pleased as Punch' is
now the most common form of the expression, but when the term was coined it was
just as usual to say 'as proud as Punch'.
Charles Dickens, for example used the two terms interchangeably in his
novels.
The Morgan Library is Hosting An Alice in Wonderland Exhibit by Maryann Yinon
How has Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland stood
the test of time? The Morgan Library
& Museum is hosting an exhibit called “Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland.” The curators plan to bring over the
original manuscript for Carroll’s beloved children’s book “across the
pond” from the London’s British Library to New York City. Other items that will be displayed include
drawings, letters, rare editions of the book, and vintage photos. The opening date has been scheduled for June
26, 2015 and the closing date has been set for October 11, 2015. “The
enchanting tale of Wonderland was first told ‘one golden afternoon’ to Alice Liddell and her two sisters. Delighted by the fantastic world of logic and
nonsense inhabited by rabbits in waistcoats and playing card gardeners, Alice
begged for a written copy of her namesake’s adventures underground. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll) painstakingly wrote
out the story, illustrating the original manuscript with his own pen and ink
drawings.” Download a free digital edition of the
novel at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11 http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/the-morgan-library-is-hosting-an-alice-in-wonderland-exhibit/97642
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1254
February 9, 2015 On this date in 1825,
after no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of
Representatives elected John
Quincy Adams President of the United States. On this date in 1870, President Ulysses
S. Grant signed a joint
resolution of Congress establishing
the U.S. Weather Bureau.
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