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damerell ([personal profile] damerell) wrote2007-10-11 05:24 pm
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[livejournal.com profile] ceb and I were in Trafalgar Square last night. She has never been before. Was it wrong to turn to her as we passed Nelson's Column and say "Again, but with tongues, Hardy"?

PS: book must be printed on acid-free paper, otherwise will disintegrate before reader finished.
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[identity profile] gaius-octavian.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
He said "kismet" (fate) not "kiss me"!

[identity profile] stephdairy.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
Not a theory supported by any contemporary evidence, and the OED doesn't know of any uses in English of kismet to mean fate/destiny until 1849. Nelson died in 1805.

See also http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/visit_see_nelsonfaq.htm#Twelve

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[identity profile] gaius-octavian.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
Words come into English from the Navy, not the other way 'round!

[identity profile] spaglet.livejournal.com 2007-10-13 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
s/into/in

And no, [livejournal.com profile] damerell, you weren't wrong at all.

(Of course.)

[identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
And in a totally manly way, to boot!

[identity profile] gaius-octavian.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely! I mean, they were both in the Navy!
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