[stylist] useful resource

Judith Bron jbron at optonline.net
Fri Jun 18 20:47:18 UTC 2010 

Donna, A convenient little program called "Word Web is great for instant 
information.    For better synonyms, www.thesaurus.com is great.  Judith
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From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
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> 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
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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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