Mike dribbles away also

[Jon Ford]

Jim-- Mike have meant you some disrespect-- perhaps he was referencing that 
very Jerusalem Post article you mentioned about Dadid Putz in order to imply 
that you, too, are a putzer. But then again, I'll bet you just made it up, 
showing disrespect for Mike.  I am confounded!
Jon yclept Ford


>From: Jim Strong <strongjim@yahoo.com>
>To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: Mike dribbles away also
>Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:24:10 -0600
>
>--- Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com> wrote:
> > "due to my high crimes and misdemeanors, Fontaine M
> > and others and a guy who you may not know yclept
> > Jim Strong have set up a doppelgaenger maillist
> > where there are many of original agl subscribers
> > actively posting."
>=======================
>:yclept"
>************
>
>    Once this was the standard way of forming the past
>participle of the verb clepe, to call (or, more
>strictly, its Old English precursor, cleopian). For
>the past few hundred years it has only turned up as a
>deliberately archaic form, mostly in poetry, or as
>light relief. It surfaces occasionally as ponderous
>humour in journalistic pieces, as here in the
>Jerusalem Post in 1997 (the name of the writer has
>been suppressed to protect the guilty): “The caption
>under the photo of the unfortunately yclept basketball
>player just makes matters worse: ‘David Putz dribbles
>away...’ ”. Such poppings-up are frequent enough that
>the word appears in most dictionaries today, even
>though it died out in the north of England about 1200
>and lingered in the south and east only a little
>longer. It has been outside the mainstream of English
>for so long that the person credited with popularising
>it again (Gavin Douglas, a Scots poet and divine),
>wrote around the end of the fifteenth century. The
>initial y was once the standard way of marking the
>past participle: yclensed, yfastened, ypunched, and
>dozens of others. It was the Old English equivalent of
>a form which still exists, for example, as ge– in
>modern German. Advice to budding writers: best avoided!





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