As a writer, I look for inspiration and ideas in all sorts of places. This year I bought the Word Origin Calendar, published by Accord Publishing, so that each day I would have a glimps into the origin of words. Some of those stories, such as the origin of the word "chowder", which came up on January 2nd, I find quite fascinating. Not everyone's cup of tea I understand but writers really need to know these things.
Anyway, I do not consider the following entry all that unique but it does fit our professional area and this may answer a question you have had for many years. Check it out.
For Friday, January 18, 2008 the page reads:
the quick and the dead * The dead do not move quickly, to be sure, but the "quick" in the sense of this long-attested English proverb are not rapid either. In Middle English, quikke meant "alive", so that the phrase means "both the living and the dead."
For what it's worth...
Have a wonderful weekend and GO PATS!!!
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