Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Words of the week



I bet I don't stick to this.


Word of the week in English:
peculation=embezzlement "The peculations of small Italian businessmen lack charm" (A. Lurie)



Word of the week in French:
occire (pronounced ox-ear)=to slay (says it's either obsolete or humorous - I can identify with that): "Mais pourquoi qu' t' as occis le mataf?' (Genet - yes, that one) - "Why did you slay the sailor-guy?'

3 comments:

  1. Mike,

    Was not sot sure of how else to contact you. I have changed computers and I have just realised I have no idea of the web address for the forum - I usually just clicked on my favourites.

    Is there any chance you could give me it?

    Lee

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  2. http://firmbutfair.proboards.com/index.cgi

    For other readers, this is a private site so you'll just a page asking you to log in.

    Raven is a great writer but he doesn't like to crow about it.

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  3. I've read Raven's recent comment - no probs but some of the people reading this are young in age, if old in wisdom so I've not published it openly. Raven though is a good guy and I hope he will go over to firm but fair (as opposed to loose and biased) asap.

    Tweet! I'm on that too now!

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