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Paint arose in Middle English from French, or as the latest update to The Oxford English Dictionary puts it from Anglo-Norman, a refinement in definition of the language that was being spoken by the descendants of the Norman Invaders from 1066. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. They would have been speaking a form of French and by the time paint popped out into the written record in 1275 that French had mixed with Old English to form Middle English. That timeline gives 200 years or so for people to have mixed the two languages but the case of the word paint shows not only that this mix could have happened faster, it also shows us a little bit about how ancient documents are interpreted. The Oxford English Dictionary indicates the year 1275 as the latest that this word paint might have first appeared, but they also list 1216 as a possible date. The reason for this is that the word is first cited in something called The Argument Between the Owl and the Nightingale which is a poem supposedly relating exactly what the title describes. It now exists in only two old manuscripts and scholars have to guess at how old the poem itself might be. The strongest evidence is a reference to King Henry. But which King Henry? And was the reference a literal one or metaphorical one because in the context of a story about two birds sitting in the trees arguing with one another one can’t be too sure anything is literal. Thus is woven the tenuous dating of first citations. The birds certainly were arguing. The citation for the word paint relates to the nightingale telling the owl how hateful and ugly she is: “your body is squat, your neck is scrawny, your head is bigger than the rest of you put together; your eyes are black as coal, and as big as if they were painted with woad.” Woad is a kind of dye. With this cutting remark it is appropriate that when we look back beyond the French etymology of paint we find Latin and ultimately an Indo-European root and that Indo-European root meant “to cut.” The development seems to have been that people used the word “to cut” to refer to making decorations with cut marks, that this later came simply to mean “to decorate” and later still “to decorate with colors.”

Have you ever been enjoying a nice pastrami sandwich and thought to yourself, "This is good, but I really wish it had some bones in it." Well, this recipe was an attempt to solve that age-old desire. I've taken a spice rub traditionally used on a beef brisket to make pastrami, and applied it to America's favorite appetizer, chicken wings. This resulted in a pretty nice chicken wing recipe, which tasted nothing like pastrami. I guess I'm asking for trouble calling it "Pastrami Wings." If your palette is set for some rich, fatty, smoky pastrami, you will be disappointed. As I joke in the video, a chicken ain't a cow, and no chicken wing will ever taste like real pastrami. Having said that, so what? They're just chicken wings. Perfect for this time of year, since for sports fans this is the ultimate sweet spot on the calendar. You can watch baseball, football, basketball (I wish the Bay Area had a team), hockey (Go Sharks!), golf, and several other minor sports (like college football). What better way to veg on the couch for 14 hours, than with a plate of chicken wings that don't taste like pastrami? Honey, can you grab me another beer? My fingers are all greasy. Enjoy! Ingredients: 1 tbsp vegetable oil 2 1/2 pounds chicken wing sections 2 tbsp fresh ground black pepper 1 1/2 tbsp ground coriander 1 tbsp smoked paprika pinch of cayenne, optional 2 tsp kosher salt, or to taste 2 tsp flour *serve with Russian dressing as a dip Note: I thought these were fairly mild, and would actually increase the spice amounts next time. If you experiment, please let me know the results!

The recent post which featured Denise from ChezUs' beautiful dark chocolate macarons with bittersweet ancho chili ganache reminded my wife Michele that it'd been a while since she'd whipped up a batch of her famous chili chocolate cookies. These dense, dark, and dangerously addictive cookies feature a dose of black pepper and cayenne, which to some may seem like an odd addition. But one taste and you'll understand the method to this madness. Just like adding a pinch of salt to dessert recipes makes them even sweeter and more delicious, the addition of pepper in this cookie really makes the chocolate even more chocolaty. The cookies aren't really "spicy," but you can definitely tell something strange and wonderful is happening. I'm terrible with keeping my secret ingredients, secret. As soon as someone says, "Hey, what's in these?" I spill the beans. However, if you're one of those sadistic cooks that loves tormenting your foodie friends by not telling them what that certain something is, then this recipe is for you, since the spices are very hard to identify. A couple notes about the recipe ingredients below. I use kosher salt for just about everything, but I always have to remind myself that it has a much flakier, larger grain, so 1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt is really like 1/4 teaspoon of fine table salt. The measurement below is for fine salt, so double it if you also use flake-style kosher salt. Also, Michele decided to reverse the chocolate blend in the original recipe by using 2 parts unsweetened chocolate to 1 part bittersweet. If you like really sweet cookies use 2 parts bittersweet to 1 part unsweetened. If you're not sure, make 4 or 5 batches and experiment with different combinations. You really can’t practice too much when it comes to these strange, but spectacular cookies. Enjoy! Ingredients: 1/2 cup dried currants 2 tablespoons Kahlua 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 1/2 cup flour 1/4 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper 2 room temperature eggs 3/4 cup sugar 2 tsp vanilla 1 cup chocolate chips Note: Special thanks to Sigve Hoel who gifted me a sweet new set of OXO mixing bowls! He saw them on my Amazon Wish List (in the sidebar in case you're wondering). Thanks Sigve! We LOVE them.

Check out this week's video demonstration, where Ilysa shows you more about mixing polymer clay colors. It's important to learn about color- better color produces more interesting designs for your jewelry, accessories, and home decor items!

I really had no idea what to do today. After seeing my post you will probably think, I still don t. I was searching through old footage and I found this little bit of video from Sept. I started playing around with it and this is what I came up with. Why? I don t know, hence the name .but I think it looks cool, so .here it is. Navlopomo09 day 5. Ipod, Iphone, Zune and just about anything else. Related posts:AnswerStreet Sounds48 Hours

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Hors d’oeuvre is a tough one to spell because not only has this double barreled word retained its original French spelling, we in English have changed it’s pronunciation a bit to suit what feels most comfortable on our tongues. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. What I mean is that although we pronounce hors d’oeuvre with an “r” before the “v” it is actually spelled with the “v” before the “r”. This now English word hors d’oeuvre is really three French words baked into one. These days hors d’oeuvre likely mean to you finger foods scarfed down at a party. When the term was first used in French back in 1596, hors d’oeuvre was an architectural term and indicated a piece of masonry that jutted out from the rest building; a ledge or a piece of cornice or something. The literal meaning of these thee words is hors meaning “outside” de meaning “of”, and oeuvre meaning “work” Thus hors d’oeuvre literally means “out of [the] work.” So the main work of the building’s edifice has hors d’oeuvres sticking out of it. From that start, when hors d’oeuvre first came into English in the early 1700s it meant “something out of the ordinary”  But both in French and in English it very quickly came to mean a little something extra to eat before the main meal; just to get the juices flowing. In this use it actually retains its original meaning since “the work” in this sense is the creative work of the cook. For a chef the main work is the main meal, so that the hors d’oeuvres are something outside of that main creation.

It s day 4 of NaVloPoMo and it s also day 4 of the NaVloPoMo vlogging game, 30 vlogger 30 days. Or is it 30 days 30 vloggers. Or is it something else completely? Shrug. Anyway yesterday Dennis made a post, the day before that it was Rupert and the day before that it was Adrian. Each video builds on the previous video in some way in some form. Tomorrow Verdi will do a video built in some way on mine today and so on and so on. I have to say I like this video, it was actually my second choice but I think I like this more than my orginal idea. Every once in a while I like to show you all that I can do more than just create goofy, funny, talking head, baby video s. Nothing wrong with any of those mind you, I enjoy those as well but it feels good sometimes to go outside of my self imposed box and do something different. The music is the Greatest Story Every Told The poem is of course by Walt Whitman Ipod, Iphone, Zune and just about anything else Related posts:Talking Heads?!Reruns already?The Legend of The Batman

A pawn is the lowliest payer on the chess board. But why are they called pawns? SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Today I’m going to talk about four words pawn. In some ways they all have to do with the lowly. When people are desperate for cash they sometimes pawn their valuables. Thankfully I’ve never been forced into this position but the basic arrangement is that you hand over your diamond tiara and the pawnbroker hands you a stack of bills. You agree to pay him back with interest in a certain time period or else he gets to keep and sell your tiara. The reason the gentleman now in possession of your jewelry is called a pawnbroker, and the act is called pawning is that this agreement between the two of you is a kind of pledge and about 600 years ago a French word for “pledge” pan made its way into English. The second word pawn I want to talk about today refers to people who are used as tools in other people’s schemes. This usage is almost as old as the “pledge” pawn although it comes from a different source. Before I explain why someone who is being manipulated in this way is called a pawn I’ll jump to the third word pwn.*(note below) Pwn is a fairly recent development. It means “to dominate.” This new pwn is a word that could only come about in the internet age because it is a typo-word among internet gamers who intended to type own but since the key for the letter “p” is right beside the “o” key, own all too often came out pwn.  One gamer might claim to “own” another when he or she dominates them in games. It seems to me that the coincidental similarity in meaning and form between pwn and pawn could be one reason why the new word caught on. Now to why that abused individual might be called a pawn. Someone who is merely a pawn is so called because they are being used like the lowliest piece in a game of chess. The name of the chess piece in turn came about because in real life the lowliest soldiers were those who fought on foot and when the Norman Conquerors arrived in England with their French a paun meant “a walker” based on the Latin root word for foot. Note: My gentle subscribers (now I know why those old authors addressed their gentle readers ) have pointed out to me that pwn is pronounced to rhyme with own.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and numerous state departments of health have been working together to investigate and analyze how Chinese made drywall entered into the country, where it was used, what is in it, and what impact it may have on human health and corrosion of electrical and metal components.More on the CPSC s investigation of Chinese drywall

No, this month will not be all Jaymisen, all the time .but I was running out of time tonight, issues with my computer and quicktime. Anyway I was looking at this footage and it got me thinking about Dennis s latest post. We are doing this big NaVloPoMo game where 30 vloggers are making a video a day inspired by the previous day s vloggers post. Tomorrow I will post a video that is inspired in some way by Dennis s video that he made today I think I know what I am going to do, not 100% sure though. Confused yet? I am and I know what the heck is going on. Anyway looking at Dennis s video got me thinking about what I wanted to do for my video for tomorrow and while I was doing that I was also thinking about what I wanted to do for today. Children are funny creatures in so many ways, looking at Jaymisen, I think about a lot of things. My own childhood, how I was as a parent for Jimmy and Marie, how I am as a husband, a father and now a grandfather. My grandson will never know a world that is not connected. Think about that for a minute, he will never know a world where he can t communicate with someone from China, from Russia, from New York, Canada, the UK and so on. There are no barriers for him, only the ones we place on ourselves. It s weird to think about. I know that this little video is nothing more than a simple home video or is it? Heath Ipod, Iphone, Zune and just about anything else Related posts:Video ChaosThe most exciting video I have ever done!!!My First Video as a vlogger (video blogging week 2007 day 7)

On this edition of the word balloon podcast, Marvel writer Matt Fraction comments on the startling events in The Invincible Iron Man #19. We also talk about the new monthly cover design from Ryan... WORDBALLOON features one on one interviews with the writers and artists behind today's pop culture favorites. The creative minds behind today's hottest comics, films, and Television , tell behind the scene stories providing a DVD like commentary on their works, without spoiling the stories. Hosted by Chicago Radio Host John Siuntres, Wordballoon covers the pop culture entertainment scene , like no other podcast.

I’m sure you’ve met people who save past copies of magazines likeNational Geographic in some kind of personal warehouse. People who collect like this are behaving in an etymologically appropriate way at least. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Urbandictionary.com, tells me that a magazine is “a controlling device used by corporate America to brainwash teenaged girls.” The word magazine appeared on this earth long before people were reading periodicals.  Its ultimate ancestor was an Arabic word kazana meaning to “store up” whose sister word makazan, meaning “storehouse” was adopted into a number of languages including Latin and then French, where English got it from. According to the OED, in Spanish the word also existed but they then stuck the Arabic al on the front meaning “the warehouse.” This is similar to our use of the words alcohol and algebra, both of which have prefixes that could have been left off since all the al means is “the.” Thus when magazine entered English in 1583 it arrived with the meaning of a “storehouse.” This meaning we can still recognize, particularly relating to military storage areas, but otherwise this usage has pretty well been eclipsed by the magazines we read. The storage of small items in a case, such as bullets in a clip or music CDs in a cartridge, take their name from the old meaning; but we developed these applications of the word right here in English around 1677, and the French had to adopt it back from us. Similarly it was in English that a bundle of pages sold at a news stand first became known as a magazine in 1731 when the Gentleman’s Magazine, explained its own title thus: “This Consideration has induced several Gentlemen to promote a Monthly Collection to treasure up, as in a Magazine.” This meaning too was later adopted back into French and other languages. Somehow magazines fall into a lower tier of sorts in that a periodical is thought of as aimed at an academic audience while a magazine is aimed at the general public.