[stylist] useful resource

Donna Hill penatwork at epix.net
Sun Jun 27 15:34:36 UTC 2010 

Jim,
Googling brings up those online thesauri and dictionaries. I had 
installed Word Web months ago when you mentioned it, but never got 
around to figuring it out. This week, after Judith mentioned it again, I 
opened up the program. I had to answer a question about my flying habits 
-- I don't fly -- and since then, it is my first "go-to" when I'm 
writing. I'm using it more than I was Googling things, especially for 
synonyms, basically because it's so darn easy.
Thanks,
Donna

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On 6/26/2010 11:36 PM, James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR wrote:
> 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
>>
>> Read Donna's articles on
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>> 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:
>> www.padnfb.org
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
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>>>> www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/donna_hill
>>>> American Chronicle:
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>>>>
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>>>> Twitter:
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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:
>>>> www.padnfb.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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