Took photograph of Clare Church on the way home from giving daughter Kerry lunch at a garden centre in Fordham. I've always rather liked this sundial over the Church porch. It seems to give the passer by such solidly good advice, instead of lingering about peering at sundials.
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How impolite if it should find itself to be addressing a sun-dial repairer already being about his/her business!
Do you know - I'd never thought of that!!!!
Shouldn't "buffiness" be with two ffs ;)
Freja thinks it should be "butiness" ;)
Dear Rough. Surely (as a teacher) you should be teaching your daughter that buttiness (meaning having the attributes of a sandwich) should be spelled with two 't' s?
P.s. Please explain to her that in her grandfather's day the long 's' still had its uses.
Or rather it did in 1790.
Or (again) it might be a variant of battiness (which in our family does - it must be admitted- have a certain relevance.
From a printer's perspective the long s (like an f without the cross-piece) was employed as the first ess of the double esses (ss) with the small curly s snuggled under it's over-arching curve.
Finally worked it out. Everyone knows our ancestors couldn't spell, and this is therefore a mispelling of bustiness, which was used to describe large bosomed ladies as the Victorian age loomed.
The ladies loomed largely too ~ thoracically speaking...
Just spotted this:-
The long, medial, or descending ſ is an archaic form of the lower case letter s. It replaced a single s, or the first in a double s, at the beginning or in the middle of a word (e.g. "ſinfulneſs" for "sinfulness" and "ſucceſsful" for "successful"), and in ligature form (e.g. "Tiſſick" for "Tissick").
The German letter ß, known as sharp S, (German: eszett or scharfes S) is the only German letter that is not part of the basic Latin alphabet. The letter is pronounced [s] (like the "s" in "see"). The ß character once commonly seen in English print is no longer used in any other language. The following link has further info ~
https://www.google.com/search?q=What+is+%C3%9F+called+in+English?&sa=X&rlz=1C1CHWA_enGB636GB636&biw=1920&bih=937&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=ApmJxNixcSkjxM%253A%252CAQzksGSkdir2MM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQqxTAza-MaVo31XXt6ruzxVgz51g&ved=2ahUKEwjxybPJ6KriAhXSXRUIHQLlBDEQ9QEwAHoECAsQBg#imgrc=ApmJxNixcSkjxM:
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