“Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than is what is commonly thought small.” – Virginia Woolf

if you’ve never before explored Schott’s Original Miscellany, i highly suggest you do.  it’s everything you could ever need to know and even more of what you don’t.  simply put it’s awesome.

Golf Stroke Nomenclature

Double Bogey…..+2

Bogey…..+1

Par…..0

-1…..Birdie

-2…..Eagle

-3…..Albatross, Double Eagle

Nouns of Assemblage

a malapertness of peddlers, a spring of teals, a gang of elk, a murmuration of starlings, a suit of sails, a wilderness of monkeys, a doping of sheldrake, a clutch of eggs, a coven of witches, a staff of servants, a field of runners, a sheaf of arrows, a chattering of choughs, a cete of badgers, a bench of bishops, a murder of crows, a bundle of rags, a barren of mules, a pontification of priests, a rag of colts, a walk of snipe, an exaltration of larks, a muster of peacocks, a desert of lapwing, a drift of swine, a stud of mares, a parliament of rooks & owls, a glozing of taverners, a covey of ptarmigan, a business of ferrets, a drunkship of cobblers, a sounder of wild boar, a nye of pheasants, a fall of woodcock, a sege of herons, a herd of curlews

Sneezing

If you sneeze on Monday, you sneeze for danger;

Sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger;

Sneeze on Wednesday, sneeze for a letter;

Sneeze on Thursday, something better;

Sneeze on Friday, sneeze for sorrow;

Sneeze on Saturday, see your sweetheart tomorrow.

Birthstones

January…..Garnet

February…..Amethyst

March…..Bloodstone

April…..Diamond

May…..Emerald

June…..Pearl, Alexandrite

July…..Ruby

August…..Sardonyx, Agate

September…..Sapphire

October…..Opal

November…..Topaz

December…..Turquoise

and it just goes on and on and on…

by Zita

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