[stylist] useful resource

Donna Hill penatwork at epix.net
Fri Jun 18 18:09:55 UTC 2010 

Hi Jim,
I must say that all I do is Google things. Sometimes, the Google entries 
have enough information that I don't even have to go to the site. Having 
a Thesaurus was, for a long time, one of the things I missed most about 
no longer having reading vision.
Donna

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James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR 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:
>> Jim, This is excellent! Thanks for sharing. Donna
>>
>> Read Donna's articles on
>> Suite 101:
>> www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/donna_hill
>> American Chronicle:
>> www.americanchronicle.com/authors/view/3885
>>
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>>
>>
>> Check out the "Sound in Sight" CD project Donna is Head of Media 
>> Relations for the nonprofit Performing Arts Division of the National 
>> Federation of the Blind:
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>>
>>
>>
>> James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR wrote:
>>> I've subscribed to the "a phrase a week" newsletter for some time 
>>> 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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