Nothing

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 1 Feb 2010 8:20 am

What about...
DEITY
REINTRODUCED
DEINTENSIFIED
EIRE
EITHER

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 1 Feb 2010 10:38 am

Alan Brookes wrote:What about...
DEITY
REINTRODUCED
DEINTENSIFIED
EIRE
EITHER

Joe, Alan, this really stimulates my creative instinct.
My latest poetic rendering:

LOTS OF NOTHING

by Richard Matthews Collins

I before e except after c
or when sounded like a as in neighbor and weigh.
But, when e before i sounds like e
Don't question it __ just let it be.

My neighbors' name is Greenleaf.
Do I call them the Greenleafs or the Greenleaves?

Joe Harwell · Post by **Joe Harwell** » 4 Feb 2010 10:16 pm

Alan Brookes wrote:What about...
DEITY
REINTRODUCED
DEINTENSIFIED
EIRE
EITHER

OK, Alan, I'll play.

Deity-direct transliteration of the Latin
Reintroduced-prefix, not part of original word
Deintesified-once again, a prefix,
where as the suffix fulfills the rule
Eire-proper noun and transliteration
Either-British pronunciation prevails?

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 25 Feb 2010 7:55 pm

Rick Collins wrote:
"I before E except after C . . . Weird?"
I before e except after c, or when sounded like a as in neighbor and weigh __ still weird.
Joe, I tried to make some sense of this, but came up with nothing.

"Nothing" has neither an "i", nor an "e", nor a "c".

...and I have NOWT more to say on that subject.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 26 Feb 2010 3:19 am

I'm with you Alan !! I just can't say enough on this subject so I'll say NOTHING !!

Regrets, Paul

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 12 Mar 2010 7:09 pm

It seems a lot of people have been saying NOTHING lately.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 13 Mar 2010 5:03 pm

Yup !! AND I WAS ONE OF THEM...don't know why I can't keep my mouth shut !! Much toodoo about NOTHING !!

Regards, Paul

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 14 Mar 2010 12:53 pm

Nothing is what's at the end of an irrational number.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 14 Mar 2010 1:46 pm

Nothing is happening here. Move along.

John P. Phillips · Post by **John P. Phillips** » 14 Mar 2010 1:50 pm

Moving along but nothing is happening !

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 14 Mar 2010 1:59 pm

Run, Forrest !! Run !!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 14 Mar 2010 5:20 pm

Where I come from we say "nunk".

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 14 Mar 2010 5:28 pm

Alan Brookes wrote:Where I come from we say "nunk".

Where I come from a nunk is a nun who is also a monk.

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 16 Mar 2010 5:12 pm

I'm glad something brought nothing back. If nothing leaves, do you still have everything?

Rick Abbott · Post by **Rick Abbott** » 16 Mar 2010 7:11 pm

Mr. Qualls,

I suddenly feel like an

HELP!!!!

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 16 Mar 2010 8:30 pm

This thread is turning to NOTHING; but isn't that what we want? $:\$
It's becoming just part of the Procrastination Workshop.
Pardon that expression __ w-o-r-k shop!

Jim Lindsey (Louisiana) · Post by **Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)** » 17 Mar 2010 12:15 pm

Great Ceasar's ghost ... 74 pages of nothing. This is the biggest nothing I've ever seen.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 17 Mar 2010 4:38 pm

Roger Crawford wrote:I'm glad something brought nothing back. If nothing leaves, do you still have everything?

...as long as you started with everything; if you started with nothing you still have nothing, even though it's left. $:\$

Jim Lindsey (Louisiana) · Post by **Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)** » 17 Mar 2010 4:55 pm

Jim Lindsey wrote:Great Ceasar's ghost ... 74 pages of nothing. This is the biggest nothing I've ever seen.

On second thought, I take back what I said earlier. This is the second largest nothing I've ever seen ... the largest was my ex-wife.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 26 Mar 2010 7:10 pm

I know what you meam Jim...I had five like that !! Seems I have spent my whole life doing nothings !!

Regrets, Paul

Post by **b0b** » 26 Mar 2010 9:22 pm

Compared to that, this is nothing!

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 27 Mar 2010 4:47 am

75
75
75
75
75
Do I hear a 76 ??
Going Once...

Going Twice.....

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 27 Mar 2010 8:55 am

77. Above that I have nothing left.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 27 Mar 2010 9:12 am

NOTHING. No Thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly)

As any historian will tell you, a Thing was the old Saxon word for a Parliament.
The Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea, is still governed by a Thing.
England, before the invasion by the Duke of Normandy in 1066, was governed by a Thing.
So, Nothing would be "No Government".

You will have noticed that people in the North of England tend to say "Nothink" instead of "Nothing". This is because North of Watling Street was the Danelaw. There was much Danish settlement, and Anglo-Saxons were in the minority. (In fact, under King Knut, England was a Danish colony.) The Danes always pronounced words ending in -ing as -ink. Note how the Ice Ring became the Ice Rink. So, when you hear people say "nothink" or "noffink", don't dismiss them as illiterate: it's a legitimate regional variation.

But it goes even deeper than that. Anglo-Saxons rarely used the word "thing" unless it meant government. They preferred to use the word "what". Instead of saying "there is something over there" they would say "there is somewhat over there." Over the years, "somewhat" has been abbreviated to "summut", so many English people would say, "there's summut over there". Again, it's not illiteracy, it's perfectly grammatical. Continuing on, instead of saying "there is nothing over there" they would say "there is nowhat over there." Over the years, "nowhat" has been abbreviated to "nowt", so many English people say "there's nowt over there."

It gives a new perspective to NOTHING, doesn't it ?

Jim Lindsey (Louisiana) · Post by **Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)** » 27 Mar 2010 9:25 am

I'm nothing if not fascinated with this account of nothing.

Suddenly I'm getting the impression that there's at least one steel player on here (Ray Qualls, are you reading this?) who'd think nothing of presuming we're all aliens.

(oops, did I say that?)