"The Dying Lion Of Lucerne Is One Of The World's Most Famous Monuments"
"It was carved out of natural rock in memory of the heroic deaths of the Swiss mercenaries at the Tuileries in 1792. Mark Twain described the Lion of Lucerne as the saddest and most moving piece of rock in the world. The Lion lies in his lair in the perpendicular face of a low cliff — for he is carved from the living rock of the cliff. His size is colossal, his attitude is noble. His head is bowed, the broken spear is sticking in his shoulder, his protecting paw rests upon the lilies of France. Vines hang down the cliff and wave in the wind, and a clear stream trickles from above and empties into a pond at the base, and in the smooth surface of the pond the lion is mirrored, among the water-lilies. Around about are green trees and grass. The place is a sheltered, reposeful woodland"
embarrassed about your age, boomer?
I did now.
First recorded in 1815–25; from Latin: “straps holding a baby in a cradle, earliest home, birthplace,” probably equivalent to unattested *incūnā(re) “to place in a cradle” ( in- in- 2 + unattested -cūnāre, verbal derivative of cūnae “cradle”) + -bula, plural of -bulum suffix of instrument; incunabula def 1 as translation of German Wiegendrucke
Lotsa words from this. First, in modern Spanish, a 'cuña' is a crib; no surprise there. I'm guessing English words such as 'county' and 'country' come from the same root. But of course, there is at least one word which has to come from the same source, but will rarely, if ever, be mentioned in school: cunt. Sorry if I ruffled anyone's feathers on that, but in linguistics, you talk about a word such as that the same way you'd talk about any other word. And remember, the same word in the same language can be inexcusably vulgar in one place, yet no more than a discourtesy in another place which speaks the same language. More than once, I've had to alert an Australian to the difference between the use of cunt in Australia and the use of it in the US. For the yankees in the house: in Australia it means something about the same as 'j#rk' in the US. Not exactly polite or graceful, but not gonna get you slapped. Of course, if we were to delve into the history of 'j#rk' in the States, it might reveal a somewhat more impolite meaning than it has now. And no, I'm not talking about its possible relation to 'Soda J#rk'.
embarrassed about your age, boomer?
I did now.
First recorded in 1815–25; from Latin: “straps holding a baby in a cradle, earliest home, birthplace,” probably equivalent to unattested *incūnā(re) “to place in a cradle” ( in- in- 2 + unattested -cūnāre, verbal derivative of cūnae “cradle”) + -bula, plural of -bulum suffix of instrument; incunabula def 1 as translation of German Wiegendrucke
Lotsa words from this. First, in modern Spanish, a 'cuña' is a crib; no surprise there. I'm guessing English words such as 'county' and 'country' come from the same root. But of course, there is at least one word which has to come from the same source, but will rarely, if ever, be mentioned in school: cunt. Sorry if I ruffled anyone's feathers on that, but in linguistics, you talk about a word such as that the same way you'd talk about any other word. And remember, the same word in the same language can be inexcusably vulgar in one place, yet no more than a discourtesy in another place which speaks the same language. More than once, I've had to alert an Australian to the difference between the use of cunt in Australia and the use of it in the US. For the yankees in the house: in Australia it means something about the same as 'j#rk' in the US. Not exactly polite or graceful, but not gonna get you slapped. Of course, if we were to delve into the history of 'j#rk' in the States, it might reveal a somewhat more impolite meaning than it has now. And no, I'm not talking about its possible relation to 'Soda J#rk'.