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“Through my most grievious fault”
Since the most recent changes to the Roman Missal almost every Sunday we’ve been saying: through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; … I’ve noticed that in our congregation almost everyone says “grievious” as opposed to “grievous.” I knew that sometimes speakers insert an “-i-” into words like “grievous” and “mischievous.”…
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Collocations, collocations, and collocations
In recent reading and listening to papers, I’ve noticed that sometimes the word “collocations” is used ambiguously. Authors seem to use the word in three different ways: 1. Words that occur together 2. Words that occur together frequently 3. Words that occur together in some statistically significant manner Of course, it’s unsurprising to see a…
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Elie Wiesel and When the Meanings Don’t have Words
I, too, have recently adopted the mantra “words don’t have meanings; meanings have words.” But, I was struck recently by this passage in the preface of Night by Elie Wiesel where he discusses how there were no words appropriate for the meanings he was trying to convey concerning his experiences during the Holocaust: I had…