Re: "You're a prince"
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:05:54 +1000
Aaron wrote:
> right, but princeps is from primus & capere as well, and I quote:
>
> <<princeps (leader, initiator); from primus (first) and capere (to
take)>>
>
> I'm quoting Merriam Webster Dictionary
A lecturer - a Shakespeare expert - once told me an interesting thing. Take
a look at any of the extant First Folios of Shakespeare's work,
specifically, the Yorick scene from `Hamlet'. There is never anywhere a
mention of a skull. The stage direction is: `he throws up a *spade*.
However, look at *any* Complete and Utter edition of `Hamlet', no matter
how scholarly or how closely it professes to stick to the original, and
you'll never ever find anything but `He throws up a skull'. I found that
very insightful.
I guess the moral of this story is: we can't always trust our dictionaries
(or the people who compile them), sometimes we have to trust our instincts
(:
Camille
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