Difference between revisions of "Mous at hand"

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mous = Chaucerian form to suggest distance in time: Joyce, Letters 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver)

mous: (archaic) mouse → Hickory Dickory Dock, The mouse ran up the clock

mus: (Latin) mouse (musculus, muscle, is literally "little mouse") See “mammamuscles most mousterious” on page 14

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	* '''mous:''' (''archaic'') mouse → ''Hickory Dickory Dock, The mouse ran up the clock''		* '''mous:''' (''archaic'') mouse → ''Hickory Dickory Dock, The mouse ran up the clock''

−	* '''mus:''' (''Latin'') mouse (''musculus'', muscle, is literally "little mouse") ~~→~~ [[mousterious]]	+	* '''mus:''' (''Latin'') mouse (''musculus'', muscle, is literally "little mouse") See “mammamuscles most [[mousterious]]” on page 14