Monday, June 1, 2009

Blogmare & Bathroom cahoots

A nice surprise awaits in Part 3, just to bait you, or egg you on, but if you are bothered to watch these, do start from the beginning:




BTW, the verb egg 'urge' as in egg on is from Old Norse eggja 'incite, encourage, urge on' - and is not related to the eggs laid by birds. Egg as a verb is recorded in print in 1200, but not until 1566 in the phrase egg on. The verb involving the spheroidal body used in pelting is not recorded until 1857. The noun form egg is shown to come from Old Norse and is used in English by 1000. Eggnog, an American creation, is formed from egg (from birds) and nog 'strong ale' and is recorded by 1825

And for anyone out there who speaks English, who would like to know more on their own language, of it's beginnings around 500 AD as a minor guttural Germanic dialect through all it's mutations and on to its rise as the truly established global language, I highly suggest reading this rather wonderful adventure story:
http://www.amazon.com/Adventure-English-Biography-Language/dp/1559707844