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WORD OF THE DAY..........courtesy of Dictionary.com
ifyoucantfixit:
haimish \HEY-mish\, adjective:
Homey; cozy and unpretentious.
Now separated from Gisela Liner's home cooking and haimish evenings playing living-room soccer with Kisch, Billie consoled himself by going to the finest spots in Berlin.
-- Ed Sikov, On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
By late afternoon the house looked at least haimish, with the season's last roses cut and opening in jelly jars.
-- Sally Koslow, With Friends Like These
There were other homey touches: a mizrakh plaque on the eastern wall, a silver menorah and a sewing kit containing a color wheel of spools on the sideboard—all made the more haimish by the savory aromas wafting in through the kitchen door.
-- Steve Stern, The Frozen Rabbi
Haimish stems from the Yiddish word of the same spelling, which comes from the German word heimisc that literally means "pertaining to the home."
ifyoucantfixit:
armamentarium /ahr-muh-muhn-Tair-ee-uhm/.,noun
1. A truthful source of devices or materials, available or used for an undertaking.
2. The aggregate of equipment, methods, and techniques available to one for carrying out ones duties.
You can almost hear the crash as my medical (armamentarium) smashes to the ground -
---Emily R. Transue. M>D. On Call
In addition to the past lying available in his memory, he had always had a technical (armamentarium) second to none
Even the hostile critics had granted him that.
---Orson Scott Card. Masterpieces
Litvikov led the way over to his long conference table, which was covered in green felt, and stocked with an (armamentarium)
of mineral-water that the commissioner never seemed to offer.
----Robert Ludlum, Thhe Tristan Betrayal
Armamentarium comes from the Latin root armament, which refers to the equipment used by a military unit.
The suffix -arium denotes a location, or receptical.
Mandy21:
--- Quote from: ifyoucantfixit on May 31, 2012, 09:32:30 pm ---haimish \HEY-mish\, adjective:
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Wasn't Haimish the best friend of William Wallace in "Braveheart"?
ifyoucantfixit:
bosh \bosh\, noun:
Absurd or foolish talk; nonsense.
You know perfectly well — and it is all bosh, too. Come, now, how do they proceed?
-- Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
Bosh, bosh, bosh! Why is it right for him to follow his nature ? Because it is right. Why is it wrong for me to follow my nature? Because it is wrong. That's the whole of your argument…
-- George Dyre Eldridge, In the Potter's House
Bosh stems from the Turkish word bos meaning "empty". It was popularized in English by the British writer James J. Morier.
ifyoucantfixit:
--- Quote from: Mandy21 on June 01, 2012, 11:46:05 pm ---Wasn't Haimish the best friend of William Wallace in "Braveheart"?
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Yes. Brendan Gleeson played Walker's friend, Hamish.
i have seen a number of people saying that the movie had really nothing to do with real history. One of the things they particularly hated
was the costumery. They say that the fact the army of Wallace wore the Kilts, was so bad. It would be like dressing the Pilgrims in clothing the modern businessman wears. ie suits and ties. There is much ado also about the entire storyline. They said it was sacrificed for the
strong need to make it adventuresome. In other words it was entirely inaccurate to true history.
It was quite a tale however, and made Mel a superstar. Too bad he has since lost all of his credability because of his personal habits and his
nasty mouth. I was a fan. But now; not at all.. What horrid hate lay within that man. It seems to have no bounds. I think he was an
unfortunate victim of his father. That however does not give him an out.. He knows better, and chooses not to do better.
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