Evocative phrases

“The sere and yellow leaf” (from Macbeth.)

Sere and yellow is for I'm old.

And another one I came across:

I shall peg out one of these days.

Peg out - meaning die

Okay

In the years before the American Civil War (1861-1864), journalists thought it was great fun to misspell words for comic effect.

Writer Charles Farrar Browne (1834-1867), for example, who wrote political humor under the byline Artemus Ward, was not the only writer to adopt deliberate misspelling as a stylistic device.

Take OK. The most likely origin of OK is as an acronym for “Oll Korrect.” By 1839, this misspelling, had been compressed to O.K. Now, OK is taken as a word and not an acronym.

The word OK has found its way into just about every language on earth. It’s usually written in all capitals, and pronounced as separate letters.

Robert Ludlum

is a favorite author of mine.

I am totally in love with his Bourne series and no matter how many times I read them, I always find something new.

And I wondered what kind of a person Ludlum was. Got my answer from Paul Garrison about the Robert Ludlum he knew:

The big fellow with his arms wide, a scotch in one hand, a smoke in the other, flashing the hope-filled smile of a man who celebrated everyone's dreams. No man ever loved a wife more madly than he loved Mary. He was thrilled by her existence.

What a man!!!