Today's word is
Not a word, a phrase, and a Latin phrase meaning literally "out of the egg." I find it kind of interesting that the first example quote given is not even from an English-language writer, but from an English translation of a Russian writer (Tolstoy). I wonder if the phrase "ab ovo" appears in Latin in the Russian original.
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Tuesday, 12:16 a.m.
Okay, I didn't quite make it back to finish this on time. TypePad is behaving badly, and I was trying to post to my other site before midnight when that site vanished into Server Malfunction Land.
I know, excuses, excuses. And all I have to show you is the beginning of something, what I'm not exactly sure. I hope I have time to come back and finish this idea sometime, but for now, here's what I've got.
they say you've been trouble
ab initio
ab ovo
ad nauseamyou came out feet first
and you've been kicking ever sincethe women in your family
tell her stories
and she doesn't know
when to laughyou've been keeping your relationship
sub rosa
ad infinitum, you had hoped,
or at least until you both finished school
and escaped to the city,
far away from opinions, complications,
and stories
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