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'') ''musculus'', muscle, is literally "little mouse") → [[mousterious]]
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* '''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