Difference between revisions of "Mous at hand"
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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") See “mammamuscles most [[mousterious]]” on p. 15 |
Latest revision as of 22:29, 5 March 2020
- close at hand: Joyce, Letters 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver)
- 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 p. 15
