FOUNT OF WISDOM OR FONT OF
WISDOM Fount is a poetic form of fountain. The expression “fount of wisdom” immediately
makes me think of this quotation from Alexander Pope: A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring
fount: 1. a. A
spring or source of water issuing from the earth and collecting in a basin,
natural or artificial; also, the head-spring or source of a stream or
river.
font: 1. “basin,”
O.E. font, from L. fons (gen. fontis) “fountain” 2. “typeface,” 1683, from M.Fr. fonte, fem.
pp. of fondre “melt”. So called because
all the letters were cast at the same time. (In England usually fount.) Since even a “font of type” can be spelled as
a “fount of type” in England, I don’t think that any hard and fast rule can
apply. Image and pronunciation can
probably be allowed to prevail. Do you
see the figurative source of wisdom or information as a welling spring of
water, or as a filled basin? Are you
saying the word with the /ow/ sound of fount or the short o of font? I’ll stick
with fount,
but I’d hesitate to fault the speaker/writer who goes with font. Maeve Maddox http://www.dailywritingtips.com/fount-of-wisdom/ See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierian_Spring
Find quotes
(learning as a dangerous thing, fools rush in where angels fear to tread, and
to err is human) from Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism at http://poetry.eserver.org/essay-on-criticism.html
Julia
Child’s Best-Ever Brownies http://thisweekfordinner.com/2010/04/01/julia-childs-best-ever-brownies/
Jejune derives from
the Latin word jejunus,
“empty stomach; fasting”, that has also given us jejunum as
the anatomical name for the small intestine (so called because it was said to
be always empty at death). Via French
intermediaries it’s also the origin of dinner,
it seems from an unrecorded Vulgar Latin verb disjunare (from jejunus plus the negative prefix dis-) hence the meal at which one breaks one’s
fast. The fact that etymologically dinner therefore means “breakfast” is just one
of those oddities that happen as language evolves. When jejune first
appeared in English, in the seventeenth century, it had at first this literal
meaning of fasting, though it became obsolete within a century. But almost immediately it took on a
figurative sense of something meagre or unsatisfying, or of land that was poor
or barren. It was also soon applied to
stuff that was equally unsatisfying to the mind or soul: “dull, flat, insipid, bald, dry,
uninteresting; meagre, scanty, thin, poor; wanting in substance or solidity” as
the Oxford English Dictionary has
it, trying to turn itself into a thesaurus.
However, at about the end of last century, the figurative sense was
taken a step further by adding the idea of something immature or callow, so
causing dictionaries to begin to add a subsidiary sense of “puerile; childish;
naive”. People differ in their views about what it means, an
insuperable barrier to effective communication. As the OED has shown, there are plenty of other words to choose
from.
Anna Mary Robertson
Moses (1860–1961),
known by her nickname Grandma
Moses, was a renowned American folk artist.
Having begun painting in earnest at the age of 78, she is often cited as
an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an
advanced age. Moses' paintings are among
the collections of many museums. The Sugaring
Off was
sold for US$1.2 million in 2006. Moses
has appeared on magazine covers, television, and in a documentary of her life. She wrote her autobiography, won numerous
awards and was awarded two honorary doctoral degrees. Starting at 12 years of age and for a total
of 15 years, she was a live-in housekeeper. One of the families that she worked for, who
noticed her appreciation for their prints made by Currier and Ives, supplied her with art
materials to create drawings. Moses and
her husband began their married life in Virginia, where they worked on farms. In 1905 they returned to the Northeastern
United States and settled in Eagle Bridge, New
York. The couple had five
children who survived infancy. See a
list of her works including Autumn in the
Berkshires, and graphics including the 1969 U.S. postage stamp recreating
her painting Fourth of July which is
in the White House at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandma_Moses See also http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/article/grandma-moses-glitter-and-jam
and http://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-grandma-moses/
Born in Eagle Bridge, New York, Will Moses creates paintings that reflect the quiet beauty of
this tiny community nestled close to the Vermont border. Will has created a vivid, delightful
miniature world, peopled with villagers who have stepped out of the past to
charm us with their simple, everyday pastimes.
As a fourth generation member of the renowned Moses family, painting is
a natural tradition for Will, who began painting when he was four years
old. Encouraged by his grandfather, a
well-known folk painter in his own right, young Will was allowed to experiment
freely with paints. Forrest K. Moses was
totally committed to self-expression and passed this freedom of spirit along to
his young grandson. Stimulated by his
grandfather's confident approach, Will developed his own unique style of Americana. Today, Will continues to carry on the family
tradition. Although his style is
reminiscent of that of his celebrated great-grandmother, it is more complex and
sophisticated. Will continues his work
illustrating and writing children's books. Philomel Books/Penguin Books for Young Readers,
have now published ten books to date: Silent Night, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Johnny Appleseed, Mother Goose, Hansel and Gretel, The Night Before Christmas, Will Moses Raining Cats and Dogs, Mary and Her Little Lamb, and Raspberries, a
story of misfortune redeemed. A few of
the notable collections where his paintings may be found are those of the White
House, The Smithsonian Institution, the New York State Museum, the Bob Hope
collection, the Herrick collection, the Bennington Museum and the J.M. Smucker
Collection. https://www.willmoses.com/t/AboutTheArtist
Majority of web traffic goes to these 10 sites by Sabrina I. Pacifici on December 24, 2015 Today’s “Big 10” Domains via Mozcast Metrics (1) en.wikipedia.org (2) www.amazon.com (3) www.facebook.com (4) www.youtube.com (5) www.yelp.com (6) www.webmd.com (7) www.walmart.com
(8) www.tripadvisor.com (9) allrecipes.com (10) www.foodnetwork.com
Writer George Clayton
Johnson, who
penned early, seminal episodes of the "Twilight Zone" and
"Star Trek" and helped conjure the darkly imaginative
dystopia of the 1967 novel "Logan's Run," died Christmas
Day 2015 at the age of 86 in the San Fernando Valley. His
works included writing credits
on seven "Twilight Zone" episodes in the early 1960s. "A Game of Pool," from 1961,
starring Jack Klugman and Jonathan Winters in a back-from-the-dead billiards
contest, and "Nothing in the Dark," aired in 1962, featuring a young Robert Redford as death. Four years later, in 1966, Johnson went—literally—where
no man had gone before, when he penned the first episode of "Star
Trek." That episode—his only
writing credit for "Star Trek"—was titled "The Man Trap"
and featured Capt. Kirk, Dr. McCoy and a crewman contending with a
shape-shifting, salt-hungry vampire on the planet M-113. Over the course of his career, the
author worked on countless other projects—not all of which were
in the sci-fi vein. He
published the fictional Las Vegas heist story "Ocean's 11,"
which inspired the 1960 Rat Pack film of the same name—as well as
a George Clooney remake more than 50 years later. Carolina A. Miranda http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-et-cam-george-clayton-johnson-logans-run-star-trek-dies-at-86-20151226-story.html
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1400
December 28, 2015 On this date in
1612, Galileo Galilei became the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued
it as a fixed star. On this date in 1795, construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest
street in the world, began in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).
Word of the Day for December 28, 2015:
aptonym noun a proper name that
aptly describes the occupation or character of the person, especially by
coincidence
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