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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
"Kindergarten Dropout"
I just remembered how at age 5 I announced to my mother that I would start kindergarten, but then I was going to "drop out."
1966.
And, now, I'm up late revising a final exam for my students tomorrow.
My favorite word--garsecg--from the Old English Beowulf is a kenning or poetic riddle-word for the sea. It means "the spear-man," perhaps the echo of a figure like the Norse Aegir or some other surly northern Neptune. In other texts, garsecg seems to be an adjective meaning "sea-like," "stormy" or "tempestuous."