"Matt Nemmers" wrote in message
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We are also the same age as John Malkowitz [sp? Malkowich?] Robin
Williams,
and the British PM, "Call-me-Tony" Blair. Quite a varied vintage, is the
scary year 1953.

Phil Innes

I believe Malkovich is the correct spelling.

ah - thank you

But, alas! (Or 'Hark!' -- whatever is the correct phrase currently en
vogue in Phil's extensive Estuary English vernacular)

yes, we often say hark, or harken! and i you are Welch you might say,
hark-you! Though surely you show off with your 'hark' knowledge - I was
showing off to a bunch of USAF squaddies around Oxfordshire in 1972, lovely
'Constable' country, soft, rolling; and one of 'em remarked on a stone wall
he happened to be leaning on, asking how come it was so big? and i/we said
it was Roman, and then he asked who rebuilt it, and i/we said no one was
stupid enough to build such a huge bloody stone wall and no one ever did
anything to it!

then it took his hand off the wall like it was hot
strange tales from the old country

Ther undur sate a creature,
As bri3t as any son-beme,
And angels did hym grete honoure,
Lo ! childe, he seid, this is thy /neme/
/MS. Cantab. Ff v. 48. f. 69

In evyll tyme thou dedst hym wronge,
He ys my /neme/ y schall the honge.
/MS Cantab. Ff ii, 38, f 151

NEME: uncle, "Neme, neam, gossip" (Warw.) Kennett, MS Lansd. 1033; though
NEMEL means capable //Lydgate. NEMLY; quickly, sharply.

NEMPNE: to name; to call. [A. Sax.] as Nempt in Holinshed, Hist. england, i.
81

**the '3' above emulates an A. Sax character rendered soft or hard as y or
g, resp.



1953 means Phil and I have something somewhat in common: My mother was
born in January of that year.

Was she though? It was a good year, and she was wise, and controlled all
without seeming effort as befits any year of the water serpent!

Té! Phil