Tock's Scrapbook - Eccentric Ramblings

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

HAPPY HAPPY, JOY JOY!

[Alori Sai]

LOL! Now you've started something and I'm going to have to sing that in chat.

[Sserapelham]

Heard your day wasn't going to well. Hope it gets better from here Tockie<3333

Here's a heart made out of wood.

-Zoey

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

That's adorable!

Thank you! <3

[Wart]

Since I first joined Miz I've been really self-concious about not using the word Guy in any of my posts. This was because of an explanation on the roots of the word Guy I read when I was very first poking around the site, long before I actually decided to join. I thought it was so interesting I even went and shared the new-found knowledge with random family members (most of whom didn't appreciate it like I did but whatever.)

Only just now did I realize that that was your post I read so long ago. Maybe its weird that I'm telling you all of this but I find coincidences like that awesome and I just thought it was sort of magical

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

Wow, that's awesome! <3

Mostly I posted that as a joke. Though there are just TONS of words like that, which technically don't fit in Mizahar. There are already certain words and phrases that the majority of the site uses as standard substitutions, such as Bells and Chimes for Hours and Minutes, not to mention all the curse words. But there's plenty of others that people just don't think of. I spot them from time to time in people's posts, and while they're never in any way a big deal, they always give me a little giggle (though etymology is my hobby).

Here's a few examples:

Champagne: Technically, this is even misused in regular English. Like many foods and drinks, Champagne is named for the region in France where it was first made. Since there is no France, there is also no Champagne, France. Thus, any 'white wine' in Mizahar shouldn't be called by this name.
Similar regional-food based examples are Cheddar (named for an English village), and Hamburger (named for Hamburg, Germany). Though a search of the site shows no uses of Cheddar other than in OOC posts. Hamburger is used in a couple of posts in the context of mangled animal bodies during a battle scene.

Dupe: This one is kind of interesting. The term "to dupe someone" as in trick or fool them originates from duplicating movies, like making pirated copies of the film. It wasn't used before the 1900's. Thus this word wouldn't have been used in a medieval world.

Schizophrenia: Used fairly often for characters with various mental problems on the site. But this psychological condition wasn't first diagnosed until the 1900's.

Aaaaaaanyway, there's your etymology rant for the day. *flees back to posting!*

[Wart]

Hehe that’s awesome I love learning things like that, I'mma have to keep those in mind. Especially dupe, I never would have guessed that's where it came from.

The only interesting word (well sign really) I've really learned and still remember is Ampersand. Or better known as the & symbol. I like the whole history of the word and how its so used so often and yet no one really knows it as anything but the "and" symbol.

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

Wow. I never read up on this one before. Thank you for pointing me at it.

Etymology

The word ampersand is a conflation of the phrase "and per se and", meaning "and [the symbol which] by itself [is] and".[1]

Traditionally, in English-speaking schools when reciting the alphabet, any letter that could also be used as a word in itself ("A", "I", and, at one point, "O") was preceded by the Latin expression per se (Latin for "by itself"). Also, it was common practice to add at the end of the alphabet the "&" sign as the 27th letter, pronounced and. Thus, the recitation of the alphabet would end in: "X, Y, Z and per se and". This last phrase was routinely slurred to "ampersand" and the term crept into common English usage by around 1837.[2][3]

Through popular etymology, it has been falsely claimed that André-Marie Ampère used the symbol in his widely read publications, and that people began calling the new shape "Ampère's and".[4]

I learned something new today ^.^

[Pash'nar]

I just felt the need to post on your scrap and say, dang, Tock, get it on.

Catching up on reading today and realized I've apparently missed out on quite a bit. Ahem.

Carry on. Carry on.

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

*turns bright red. flees. hides...*