[Magdalen] Grammar Nightmare.

[Scott Knitter]

One of my weird Chicago pleasures is to see a North Avenue bus' electronic destination sign above the front window. It typically consists of two screens: one sows the bus route number and name and the second shows the destination, or end of the line. I love seeing "72 NORTH AVENUE" and then the slowish left-to-right revealing of the destination, N A R R A G A N S E T T. It's silent, graceful, and oddly impressive. Also a very New England street name in the Capital of the Midwest. In the old non-electronic days the static sign might have said 72 NORTH to N'SETT or they would have terminated the line at a street with a shorter name, like Austin.

Scott, soon to board the 136 SHERIDAN/LASALLE EXPRESS to WACKER/ADAMS.

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> On Jul 10, 2015, at 4:52 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> LOL! As I said, enrichment.
> Perhaps "enrichment"  American style?
> 
> At the Congregational Society and at Andover Newton & Harvard there
> are collections of Bibles translated into several indigenous languages.
> The languages are long gone, the last speakers having died in the
> nineteenth century, but the place names and food names live on:
> Narragansett
> Winnipesaukee
> Monadnock
> pecan
> succotash
> 
> Someone told me once that hurricane is an Arawak word.
> Like this: the Spanish guy digs himself out of the dirt, throwing
> off brush, spitting out sand & shells.
> "What the hell was that?" he asks.
> "Hurricane," his new native friend answers.
> -M
> 
>> On Thursday, July 9, 2015, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
>> 
>> "English doesn't borrow from other languages; it chases them down dark
>> alleyways, knocks them down, and rifles their pockets for spare vocabulary."
>> 
>> Or something like that.
>> 
>>