http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/element_hocus_pocus/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/element_hocus_pocus/comment-page-1/#comment-152535 Monthly Gleanings, Part Two : OUPblog Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:29:18 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/element_hocus_pocus/#comment-152535 [...] European origin: from hun-, evidently, the first syllable of Hungarian, and a Slavic “ending”), lollygag, Schadenfreude (German: “glee at seeing somebody else in trouble”), and uffda (an expression of [...] [...] European origin: from hun-, evidently, the first syllable of Hungarian, and a Slavic “ending”), lollygag, Schadenfreude (German: “glee at seeing somebody else in trouble”), and uffda (an expression of [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/element_hocus_pocus/comment-page-1/#comment-62022 Lars Larsen Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:56:34 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/element_hocus_pocus/#comment-62022 It is actually 'hokus pokus filiokus'in Danish ;-) Regarding FUTH meaning vulva, you are not alone. The Norwegian scholar Terje Spurkland thinks the same and even takes it a bit further. On a piece of wood was written futhorg, Terje writes that org is feminine of argr which can mean a lot but also 'obsessed', so we have a vulva here, really obsessed, and ready for .. action. Maybe this was on their minds when they decided to sort the runes like this ? It is actually ‘hokus pokus filiokus’in Danish
Regarding FUTH meaning vulva, you are not alone. The Norwegian scholar Terje Spurkland thinks the same and even takes it a bit further. On a piece of wood was written futhorg, Terje writes that org is feminine of argr which can mean a lot but also ‘obsessed’, so we have a vulva here, really obsessed, and ready for .. action.
Maybe this was on their minds when they decided to sort the runes like this ?

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/element_hocus_pocus/comment-page-1/#comment-59119 Barb Quenzi Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:26:20 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/element_hocus_pocus/#comment-59119 Is there a word for a phenomenon that occurs each spring and fall with regard to the clothing we wear? When it gets warm in the spring we tend to wear winter clothing much longer than necessary and when it cools off in the fall we unwisely continue to dress for warmer weather. I am sure Chris Farrell, on Sound Money, once made reference to such a word. Is there a word for a phenomenon that occurs each spring and fall with regard to the clothing we wear? When it gets warm in the spring we tend to wear winter clothing much longer than necessary and when it cools off in the fall we unwisely continue to dress for warmer weather. I am sure Chris Farrell, on Sound Money, once made reference to such a word.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/element_hocus_pocus/comment-page-1/#comment-58113 Stephen Goranson Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:06:57 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/element_hocus_pocus/#comment-58113 Thanks, Anatoly! Quite interesting. There are some other words I hope to ask you about, perhaps after I do a little more reading. For now, for the record, on element, perhaps we are closer to "sub judice" than "elementary, Watson." An alternate explanation has not quite been abandoned. American Heritage Dictionary 4th ed. (2000) offers for element: "Middle English, from Old French, from Latin elementum, perhaps ultimately from lmn, first three letters of the second half of the Canannite alphabet, recited by ancient scribes when learning it." Some readers may venture to read Michael D. Coogan, Alphabets and Elements in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 216 (1974) 61-3 and )LP, "To Be an Abecedarian" in Journal of the American Oriental Society 100 (1990) 322. Thanks. Thanks, Anatoly! Quite interesting. There are some other words I hope to ask you about, perhaps after I do a little more reading. For now, for the record, on element, perhaps we are closer to “sub judice” than “elementary, Watson.” An alternate explanation has not quite been abandoned. American Heritage Dictionary 4th ed. (2000) offers for element: “Middle English, from Old French, from Latin elementum, perhaps ultimately from lmn, first three letters of the second half of the Canannite alphabet, recited by ancient scribes when learning it.” Some readers may venture to read Michael D. Coogan, Alphabets and Elements in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 216 (1974) 61-3 and )LP, “To Be an Abecedarian” in Journal of the American Oriental Society 100 (1990) 322. Thanks.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/element_hocus_pocus/comment-page-1/#comment-56700 janes'_kid Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:38:06 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/element_hocus_pocus/#comment-56700 FWIW, which probably isn't much I first learned of "gig line" and "gig", the demerit in the USAF sometime between 1959 and 1966. FWIW, which probably isn’t much I first learned of “gig line” and “gig”, the demerit in the USAF sometime between 1959 and 1966.

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