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• /pro-forms
• /binary nouns
• /ventrigraphism
• /i before e except after c
• /rhotic spelling discrepancies
• /the regions
• /doublet compounds
• /changeable schwa
• /-sch-

"The Xy Islands/Mountains" --> "The Xies"/"Xys":

• Always -ies: Canary, Scilly; Rocky, Snowy, Great Smoky
• Variable: Allegheny
• Usually -ys: Spratly

im-pious, outr-age, helico-pter

• appel du vide

• me daza Etymology
  • Frank O'Connor 1965 'Diminutives tended to end in "a." Patrick Street was "Pana", Shandon Street "Shandona", and to go "for a scove down Pana in your bareas" (bare feet) was "me daza" (splendid).'
    • -a ref -er
  • Beecher deas "nice" (or dessa "just, right" --- just variant of dess, old forms of deas)
• butcher's apron
  • "Where is the Flag of England" (adapted by Derek Warfield as "The Butcher's Apron") attributed to Henry Labouchère, but apparently he denied authorship and in Truth 1891-04-09 p741 he credited "a correspondent" with it as a retort to Kipling's "The English Flag" published 1891-04-04.
  • add literal sense, mark other as figurative
  • 1973 Jimmy Breslin, Viking: New York World without end, amen p.284 “What do they have the butcher’s apron out for?” he said.
  • 2021 The Echo supposedly written 1921 on Spike Island ...
    • Load up your Crossley Tenders with your horrid Black and Tans, / And take your butcher’s apron, this is no longer your land.
    • ... but descendant "‘reworked’ the verses and chorus"
• conner and connee or conee
• racy of the soil
  • per DIB Woulfe and HC 1833 xliii 205 (Sess Papers and Gen Index) p. 15 Woulfe may be somewhere in HC 1833 xiii (344) 1
    • Report from the Select Committee on municipal corporations, with the Minutes but Woulfe not listed among witnesses p. viii though Peel was among members p. ii
• mauver --- w:Alfred Austin
  • "When the foal and broodmare hinny,/ And in every cut-down spinney/ Ladysmocks grow mauve and mauver,/ Then the winter days are over"Fortunatus the pessimist Act 2 Scene 4
  • misquoted as "Winter is gone, and spring is over. / The cuckoo-flowers grow mauver and mauver" Ox Dict Hum Qs "The Weather" no.1
  • relevant
    • Punch 1892 Nov 26 p.250 col.3 mocks original rhyme;
    • The Chicago Sunday Tribune 1896-01-12: Vol 55 Iss 12 p.2 c.1 'said he once spoke of birds’ wings growing “‘mauver and mauver” in order to achieve a rhyme with a line ending “hover,"' ;
    • Athenaeum 1920 Feb 6 p.172 col.2 quotes when discussing cuckoo-flowers;
    • The Saturday Review 1927-10-08: Vol 4 Iss 11 p.178 w:Louis Untermeyer

      a casual mention of the fact that I was still engaged on a collection of the World’s Worst Poetry has brought me countless specimens of the Victorian era. ... Possibly some reader has definite information concerning two glorious but, alas, severed couplets. ... , my informant assured me, was from one of the bucolic idyls by Alfred Austin, once Poet Laureate, but I have been unable to track down the memorable lines:

      Spring has come; the Winter is over;

      The cuckoo flower gets mauver and mauver

    • Poetry Review November-December 1928: Vol 19 Iss 6 p.436 w:Michael Roberts (writer) has the misquote
• belt of the crozier - coined by w:Seán Mac Eoin in 1951 in relation to w:Mother and Child Scheme
• no relation - variety of examples: standalone, parenthetical, explicit.
  • theguardian 2012/jul/26 The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman – review "At one point, just before he leaves Berlin to chase a girl named Adele Hitler (no relation), Loeser sees a group of what he thinks are students holding a bonfire outside the library."
  • Subcommittee Hearing on Investigation of Clothing-procurement Policies and Programs of the Armed Services (1949) p4286 "Mr. ELSTON. How about the weight? Does it have the same weight as tropical worsted?
    Mr. C. ALPHONSO SMITH. Mr. George Smith-no relation, incidentally-might know better than I.
    Mr. GEORGE SMITH. Sir, the weight is approximately the same."
  • TLS 2020-11-27 Looking on the bright side of his life; A wholesome picture of the flawed artist Graham Greene "If both books are eccentric in their different ways, they are also masterpieces, and Richard Greene (no relation) can only justify the need for a third major biography by suggesting that in their attention to the minutiae of Greene’s personal life, Sherry and Shelden lost sight of what is important"
  • Douglas Kanter, DIB, Larkin, Emmet Joseph "At Columbia, Larkin read English history, of which Irish history was considered a subfield, completing his MA thesis on Fenianism and his Ph.D. dissertation on James Larkin (qv) (no relation)."
  • Arnold Daly The dominant male; essays and plays "Playing Golf" p. 32 'Golf is like a love affair. There's no fun in it unless you take it seriously, and if you do, it breaks your heart. A really great comedian, Dan Daly (no relation, sorry to say), characterized it years ago in that perfect musical comedy "The Belle of New York."'
  • Who wrote Shakespeare's plays? pp41-2 "The best-known of these early anti-Stratfordians was Delia Bacon (1811-59), an American who moved to England in 1853 and began a great crusade to convince all and sundry that Shakespeare’s works were written by Sir Francis Bacon (no relation)."
  • Murder plays house p101 'There are a couple of folks on the show right now. Jeff Finkelman. And, well, of course, Julia Brennan. No relation." It was obvious from her tone that the other Ms. Brennan wasn’t one of Moira 's favorite people.'
  • M. Douglas Flattery Annie Laurie p28 "Robert. But what would your Ladyship with Robert Reid?
    Lady Mary. Ha! you are one of the Reids of that ilk? They are dear friends of mine.
    Robert. No relation! I am simply Robert Reid, a Scottish volunteer, and of no family whatever."
  • Robert E. Lee, Sounding brass p229 "TITIUS: (Shaking his head) You don't know what you're getting into. (He sorts the scarves on the chancel rail) I used to know a silversmith in Ephesus named Demetrius.
    DEMETRIUS: No relation. Silver and I are strangers."
  • Notes on a Love Affair p36 "NORA (introducing Jim): This is my ... Mr Jim North. He's just come back from Australia.
    JENNIE (very friendly): Oh. How do you do?
    NORA : Miss—?
    JIM: Hogarth. Rake's progress and all that.
    JENNIE: No relation, I'm afraid."
  • Donald Murdoch ed "Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597-1654; no relation to the novelist) and Francois de Malherbe (1555-1628) were classical reformers of great authority in prose and poetry respectively."
  • Battle of angels, Act One; p134 "BEULAH: You're going to stay fo' the pahty, Mr .... ?
    VAL: Xavier.
    BEULAH: I know some Seviers in Blue Mountain. Any relation?
    VAL: Spelt with an “S" or an “X"?
    BEULAH: An "S," I believe.
    VAL: No relation.
    BEULAH: Awwww."
  • Brian Friel Aristocrats "CASIMIR: He used to recite ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’’ to Grandmother O’Donnell and he always rested his teacup just there; and one afternoon he knocked it over and burned his right hand very severely. ... So what you want now is well, what?
    ...
    TOM: Family lore, family reminiscences. For example, where did this (crucifix) come from?
    CASIMIR: Cardinal O’Donnell; present from Salamanca. No relation, just a great family friend."
• panegyricon quotes archive and scholar
• Electric Boogaloo "Foo 2: Electric Boogaloo" (year):
  • Divorce 1994 Tom kissed Roseanne Arnold! And the climax, DIVORCE: oops! Tom just went out for a pizza. DIVORCE 11 (ELECTRIC BOOGALOO): I guess Tom ate the last piece.
  • Would You Rather 1999 That's where Justin Heimberg and David Gomberg's "Would You Rather" and its newly-published companion "Would You Rather 2: Electric Boogaloo" come in.
  • Worst Case 2001 "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel,"; highly sedentary lifestyle seems just fine. PERI talked to coautlior David Borgenicht: Travel: should we bother? We're not particularly paranoid. We do leave the house. Why's it so scary? We started thinking about ideas for the second book— we didn't want to do "Worst Case II: Electric Boogaloo"— and travel seemed to be a natural.
  • Gold Rush 2000 We talk about the upcoming elections and pause for one quiet moment to survey the view before us: an expanse of neglected toxic dirt that leads'to the sea; lights that blink and twinkle in and across the rapidly gentrifying Bay; live-work lofts fijeled by Gold Rush II, Electric Boogaloo encroaching on the landscape.
  • Bust a Groove 1998 video game
  • Shekkie 1993 Dig Circus CD (1992 was original Shekkie)
  • La Boheme 1996 Soccer CD
  • --- 1995 Yet again the world is cursed with a sequel. Not just another Police Academy movie or something consisting of II; Electric Boogaloo.
  • PlayStation2 1999 Staff members feel that this much-vaunted sequel should be subtitled: Electric Boogaloo. Of course, any game with a “2” in the title pretty much follows this rule. Page 123. (What we were hoping for next: PlayStation2: Electric Boogaloo
  • Splendor In The Ass 1999 Pachinko CD (no prior Splendor In The Ass I...)
  • Matches 1994 track on Trick Stitches by Chicken Dog (no Matches I track)