Bobbie ----------- It's door jamb as far as I know.
using door jam is meaningless I think.
A door is known as a "rory" in parts of London.
Rory O'Moore.
So if asked to - "shut that rory, it's lettin' the cold in" ------ it means shut that door.
Roberta, I thought toe head was a white blond. Is it tow head? And here's a word that is NOT in the dictionary, but appeared in the NYT's crossword puzzle:
meting
and when one refers to "turning on a dime" in reference to a car, I have heard some folks say, "turning on a die". also another misnomer:
A sweet tooth has nothing to do with a desire for something sweet, it means a tooth that is sensitive to sweet stuff.
Well, I guess we could also say toe jamb. YUK!
Actually, meting means to give out by measure. From mete.
Well, upon my word, individual. The clue was meting and the answer was doling. Thankee, thankee. I had forgotten the rule for adding suffixes when the word ends in a vowel, preceded by a consonant.
"everybody pulled their socks up
everybody kicked their shoes off
everybody had a good year
everbody had a wet dream"
john lennon gets everywhere. they even called liverpool airport ------- john lennon airport
For several years, my magazine had a note in the masthead that persons or companies that reprinted without permission would be held liable "jointly and severely". I pointed this out repeatedly to my Editor, who insisted it was correct and refused to change it. (it should be jointly and severally)
Jointly and severally: sounds like fried chicken..
(but right).
A friend of mine (another editor) had an argument with a writer over the writer's insistence that something can reek havoc. My friend, fuddy-duddy that she is, said she thought it was more likely the someone wreaks havoc.
I was hired to proofread a book after is was published. Part One, page 1. Full-color photo of Jackie Joyner Kersee leaping over a hurdle. And the caption said something about her participating in the 1980 Olympics. The ones held in Moscow. The ones the US boycotted. Published book.
Havoc, the new cologne....
Letty wrote:Roberta, I thought toe head was a white blond. Is it tow head?
It's tow blonde, after the coarse broken flax prepared for spinning. Apparently it describes the colour and sometimes the texture of the hair.
