[stylist] useful resource

Fri Jun 18 12:03:29 UTC 2010

James,

Thanks for the resource. It'll come in handy for songwriting as well :). On 
my web page I have a listing of songwriting resources, on there, there are 
some writing reference tools theasauruses, dictionaries, etc. Go to:

http://www.braddunsemusic.com/links.html

There might be something  of use. If you have any others please let me know 
and I'll add them to my list like I've done the phrase one you just sent.

Thanks.

Brad

At 11:57 PM 6/17/2010, you wrote:
>you're welcome.  I certainly appreciate it.
>
>I am curious which online dictionaries people use, and which thesauri 
>[plural for thesaurus].
>jc
>
>At 05:51 PM 6/17/2010, you wrote:
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>>James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR wrote:
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>>>now.  don't think have shared it here.  below you'll see yesterday's.
>>>jc
>>>From: A Phrase A Week <apaw at phrasefinder.co.uk>
>>>
>>>
>>>In the nick of time
>>>
>>>Meaning
>>>
>>>Just in time; at the precise moment.
>>>
>>>Origin
>>>
>>>The English language gives us the opportunity to be 'in' many things - 
>>><http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/in-the-doldrums.html>the doldrums, 
>>><http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/in-the-offing.html>the offing, 
>>><http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/in-the-pink.html>the pink; we can 
>>>even be <http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/down-in-the-dumps.html>down 
>>>in the dumps. With all of these expressions it is pretty easy to see 
>>>what they refer to, but what or where is the 'nick of time'? It may not 
>>>be immediately obvious what the nick of time is, but we do know what it 
>>>means to be in it, i.e. arriving at the last propitious moment. Prior to 
>>>the 16th century there was another expression used to convey that 
>>>meaning - 'pudding time'. This relates to the fact that pudding was the 
>>>dish served first at mediaeval mealtimes. To arrive at pudding time was 
>>>to arrive at the start of the meal, just in time to eat. Pudding was 
>>>then a savoury dish - a form of sausage or haggis (see also 
>>><http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/proof-of-the-pudding.html>the proof 
>>>is in the pudding). Pudding time is first referred to in print in John 
>>>Heywood's invaluable glossary A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect 
>>>of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue, 1546:
>>>
>>>This geare comth euen in puddyng time ryghtly.
>>>
>>>In the nick of
>>>time
>>>That seems a perfectly serviceable idiom, so why did the Tudors change 
>>>it to 'the nick of time'? The motivation appears to be the desire to 
>>>express a finer degree of timing than the vague 'around the beginning of 
>>>the meal'. The nick that was being referred to was a notch or small cut 
>>>and was synonymous with precision. Such notches were used on 'tally' 
>>>sticks to measure or keep score.
>>>
>>>Note: the expressions 'keeping score' and 'keeping tally' derive from 
>>>this and so do 'stocks' and 'shares', which refer to the splitting of 
>>>such sticks (stocks) along their length and sharing the two matching 
>>>halves as a record of a deal.
>>>
>>>If someone is now said to be 'in the nick' the English would expect him 
>>>to be found in prison, the Scots would picture him in the valley between 
>>>two hills and Australians would imagine him to be naked. To Shakespeare 
>>>and his contemporaries if someone were 'in (or at, or upon) the (very) 
>>>nick' they were in the precise place at the precise time. Watches and 
>>>the strings of musical instruments were adjusted to precise pre-marked 
>>>nicks to keep them in proper order. Ben Jonson makes a reference to that 
>>>in the play Pans Anniversary, circa 1637:
>>>
>>>For to these, there is annexed a clock-keeper, a grave person, as Time 
>>>himself, who is to see that they all keep time to a nick.
>>>
>>>Arthur Golding gave what is likely to be the first example of the use of 
>>>'nick' in this context in his translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis, 1565:
>>>
>>>Another thing cleane overthwart there commeth in the nicke:
>>>The Ladie Semell great with childe by Jove as then was quicke.
>>>
>>>The 'time' in 'the nick of time' is rather superfluous, as nick itself 
>>>refers to time. The first example of the use of the phrase as we now 
>>>know it comes in Arthur Day's Festivals, 1615:
>>>
>>>Even in this nicke of time, this very, very instant.
>>>
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