[stylist] useful resource

James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR n6yr at sunflower.com
Sun Jun 27 03:36:47 UTC 2010 

Donna,
but there are thesauruses available to us on the web and we read them 
without vision.  or maybe you know that now.  sorry.

yes sometimes googling does work.  sometimes it can be deceptive too.
jc


At 01:09 PM 6/18/2010, you wrote:
>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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