Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

The exaggerated mouth movements are excellent for keeping one's youthful facial features apparently. So, get singing everyone!

cj wrote:Matins is lovely as a sung service (on a par with sung evensong? There's a debate!) with some gorgeous settings of the canticles, the Benedicite and Jubilate.

Always liked choral evensong... but Compline in the chapel was always special...

except the melted candle wax on your uniform. took ages to get off

An odd little word today:

pirk

• noun a metal weight fitted with a hook, used as a lure for sea fishing.

— origin perhaps a variant of perch.

eloisec wrote:except the melted candle wax on your uniform. took ages to get off

I just used to spill it onto the compine books!

This one sounds good :

scramasax

• noun a large knife with a single-edged blade found among the grave goods in many Anglo-Saxon burials. Such knives were used in hunting and fighting.

— origin mid 19th cent.: of Germanic origin.

Richard Ruck wrote:This one sounds good :

scramasax

• noun a large knife with a single-edged blade found among the grave goods in many Anglo-Saxon burials. Such knives were used in hunting and fighting.

— origin mid 19th cent.: of Germanic origin.

............. and I thought it meant throwing a saxophone out of a window !!

Richard Ruck wrote:This one sounds good :

scramasax

• noun a large knife with a single-edged blade found among the grave goods in many Anglo-Saxon burials. Such knives were used in hunting and fighting.

— origin mid 19th cent.: of Germanic origin.

I'm not sure I came across any 19th century, Anglo-Saxon burials when I was studying Archaeology. Must have missed that lecture!

The word is from the 19th. Century, not the burials!

I presume they were just called 'knives' before then......

Richard Ruck wrote:The word is from the 19th. Century, not the burials!

I presume they were just called 'knives' before then......

And I thought it was only JR who didn't get irony

I do - it's like bronzey and goldy......(with apologies to Baldrick).

Richard Ruck wrote:I do - it's like bronzey and goldy......(with apologies to Baldrick).

When I laughed out loud at your response my son asked me what I was laughing at, so I went back to 'Scramasax' and he said "it's a knife".

Does anyone have a job for a smart-arse 20-uear-old with no qualifications, not even a GCSE? (Seriously)

Is he currently a 'jobseeker', then?

Richard Ruck wrote:Is he currently a 'jobseeker', then?

Yes.

Richard Ruck wrote:The word is from the 19th. Century, not the burials!

I presume they were just called 'knives' before then......

Oh, duh, I get it.