PELOSI LIES ABOUT CATHOLIC SUPPORT

Catholic League ^ | March 19, 2010 | Bill Donohue

[Brytani]

Tar, feathers and excommunication!!

[ASOC]

You are welcome.

Words mean things. All too often folks use words or phraes without knowing the ‘real’meaning.

I get a kick out posting the Etymology of words and hope others enjoy the history of our culture - one piece at a time.

[BlessedBeGod]

BTTT!!!

[jakerobins]

Reminds of the begining of the movie “Dawn of the Dead”......Where they say......”When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.”

[Brad from Tennessee]

What's amazing to me is to me are the phrases in common usage that have survived since classical times. “Jiminy” or “By Jiminy” which I heard older people exclaim when I was a kid. The dictionary says this is a corruption of “Jesu Domine” or Lord Jesus in Latin. But I read somewhere else this is an old Roman exclamation, “By Gemini,” referring to the mythological or astrological twins. But, a scholar I ain't.

[rbosque]

Yup. This woman creeps me out every time I see her mug.

[hstacey]

Oh Karma Baby!!! I’ll need a beer and a lawn chair for this one!!!

[AnAmericanMother]

They actually swore by their names: "by Castor and Pollux!"

Because "gemini" just means "twins" (actually "born together") in Latin same as "didymoi" in Greek, and there were lots of twins around (like Thomas Didymus, a/k/a Doubting Thomas).

Also, Romans didn't speak English, but Englishmen spoke Latin, at least all the educated ones. So I think the derivation of "Jiminy" from Jesu Domine is more likely.

My grandfather used to say "Jiminy Christmas!" which confirms that derivation . . . it would be "Jesu Domine, Christe!"

He also always called a Coca-cola a "dope". He was born in 1890.

[Brad from Tennessee]

The older I get the more I realize how little know. Thanks. One of these mornings at the truckstop I may get to say, “By Castor and Pollux! This coffee’s cold.”

[ASOC]

More telling, culturally, is “worthless as a Continental” Others are facinating - "London bridge is falling down" and "Ring around the rosie (rosiy) both of which are common world-wide."

[thecodont]

He also always called a Coca-cola a "dope". He was born in 1890.

That's when it contained REAL dope!

[Brad from Tennessee]

I never know about “Ring Around the Rosie” until I saw a documentary on the Black Death.

[NYer]

Can the 55 nuns who did sign the letter really claim to be speaking for their entire orders?

No ... they are speaking only for themselves.

[ASOC]

Actually, the Black Death connection has been pretty much been de-bunked - that ‘theory’ first showed up in the 50s..

An Olde English “Round” sone, it exisits in many different cultures.

Do a search, you may be surprised... at the number of different cultures, with no ties to Brittian, that have the song in one form or another - and the many variations as well.

Thank you for reading the posts.