I thought of a cool pun the other day.
The thought process goes like this: In Old English, cnict means boy. It's where we get our modern knight. I like knights. But cnict sounds like knit, and I like knitting. I could be a cnictter.
See the cnittion?
More wordplay: sumus, which is the first plural of the to be verb, is a palindrome.
I had a lot of time on my hands.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
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...I just think of these things, and then I don't feel so bad!
- Barnes and Noble (and books in general)
- birthday parties
- friends
- fun words (like effervescent and uber)
- knitting
- learning languages
- RUF
- Scrabble...and other word games
- skiing
- sleep-overs
- swimming
- tea
- traveling (not the car part, so much!)
- weddings
- writing fantasy stories
2 comments:
so would you say cnict ka-nig-it if we were speaking in phonics or sounds or whatever
No. You say it with a very small k sound followed by a very long ng type sound. knnnicht. It is indeed were our work knight originated. Nice word sleuthing.
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