Comments on: Apple in the hand http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/12/24/apple-in-the-hand/ "Hitch your wagon to a star." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:59:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Ben http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/12/24/apple-in-the-hand/#comment-58851 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:13:15 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/12/24/apple-in-the-hand/#comment-58851 A: Not only that, but if you say it aloud, it sounds like you're saying "earily," which has to be something corn does, but I don't know what. We've already got "nosily" as a real word, and "cheekily," too. "Mouthily"? "Foreheadily"? "Chinnily"? Yeah, none of those really works. Anyway, returning from this too-many-pistachios-yesterday-induced tangent, I agree. I almost used a different word, but my family was about to do something (eat dinner, maybe?), so I decided to just go with it and get the post out there. On second thought, though, doesn't the double e (not electrical engineering :P) fit rather well with the real meaning of "eerily"? ;) M: Do you know any vampires? A: Not only that, but if you say it aloud, it sounds like you’re saying “earily,” which has to be something corn does, but I don’t know what. We’ve already got “nosily” as a real word, and “cheekily,” too. “Mouthily”? “Foreheadily”? “Chinnily”? Yeah, none of those really works. Anyway, returning from this too-many-pistachios-yesterday-induced tangent, I agree. I almost used a different word, but my family was about to do something (eat dinner, maybe?), so I decided to just go with it and get the post out there. On second thought, though, doesn’t the double e (not electrical engineering :P) fit rather well with the real meaning of “eerily”? ;)

M: Do you know any vampires?

]]> by: M http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/12/24/apple-in-the-hand/#comment-58794 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:15:02 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/12/24/apple-in-the-hand/#comment-58794 And… that Lewis book came out on my birthday! Coincidence? Probably. And… that Lewis book came out on my birthday! Coincidence?

Probably.

]]> by: A http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/12/24/apple-in-the-hand/#comment-58688 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:54:58 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/12/24/apple-in-the-hand/#comment-58688 This is in no way a reflection of you, but I just have to say that "Eerily" is an awkward word. Is it to you? The double e is strange looking. Maybe it's because there's a capital E and then a lower case e. I just have to say that because I'm a weird Englishette like that. This is in no way a reflection of you, but I just have to say that “Eerily” is an awkward word. Is it to you? The double e is strange looking. Maybe it’s because there’s a capital E and then a lower case e. I just have to say that because I’m a weird Englishette like that.

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