Merry Christmas Everybody!!
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostHummmm
Surely it's not Christmas "EVE" until this EVEning ?
Humbugs aside
From Old English æfnung - "the coming of evening, sunset, time around sunset". Verbal noun from æfnian - "become evening, grow toward evening". From æfen - "evening". As a synonym of even (n.) in the sense "time from sunset to bedtime," it dates from mid-15c. and now entirely replaces the older word in this sense. Another Old English noun for "evening" was cwildtid.
Gesælige cristesmæsse everyone! Here's a gift (I have been altering this a little every year since 1993; this is the 2014 version.):
Or maybe just waes hael!
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Originally posted by Pabmusic View PostHere's an etymology:
From Old English æfnung - "the coming of evening, sunset, time around sunset". Verbal noun from æfnian - "become evening, grow toward evening". From æfen - "evening". As a synonym of even (n.) in the sense "time from sunset to bedtime," it dates from mid-15c. and now entirely replaces the older word in this sense. Another Old English noun for "evening" was cwildtid.
Gesælige cristesmæsse everyone! Here's a gift (I have been altering this a little every year since 1993; this is the 2014 version.):
Or maybe just waes hael!
A great Christmas gift would be for a geek wizard to make Sibelius able to play woodwind trills more convincingly
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Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View PostSo it is,merry Christmas chuck.
Happy Christmas forumistas one and all (hic).
No 'hic' here as there's going to be a lot of driving in the next two days...
But we don't need artificial stimulants, do we? ...unless they enter aurally!
Happy Christmas to all !"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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