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Re: Notes for Janice!!
ifyoucantfixit:
draggle \DRAG-uhl\, verb:
1. To soil by dragging over damp ground or in mud.
2. To trail on the ground; be or become draggled.
3. To follow slowly; straggle.
No skirts to hold up, or to draggle their wet folds against my ankles; no stifling veil flapping in my face, and blinding my eyes; no umbrella to turn inside out, but instead, the cool rain driving slap into my face…
-- Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall and Other Writing
You can't run through the streets after the water baths in that thing you draggle around the house.
-- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Anya
Draggle is obviously related to this more common word drag. It entered English in the late 1400s. The suffix -le is a verb formation from Middle English, also seen in dazzle and twinkle, among others
*i never used the word draggled before.. I always thought the term to be bedraggle.. or bedraggled. I suppose it is all the same thing? Maybe the difference is that you are draggled, in behavior? Then bedraggled in appearance. It is a difference in tense. Perhaps self assessment, opposite
someone else making the assessment? Anyway it has given me pause.
Front-Ranger:
Happy birthday, Janice! :D
CellarDweller:
Thought you'd like this Janice. A NYT article on Ke$ha.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/arts/music/kesha-tilts-closer-to-a-rock-sound-with-warrior.html?pagewanted=1
Front-Ranger:
The anniversary of Janice's birthday is coming. . . thinking about ifyoucantfixit today. :'(
Front-Ranger:
REmembering Janice...
I can't seem to locate a photo of her. Chuck, can you help us out here?
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