Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

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mumpsimus \MUHMP-suh-muhs\, noun:
  1. Adherence to or persistence in an erroneous use of language, memorization, practice, belief, etc., out of habit or obstinacy.
  2. A person who persists in a mistaken expression or practice.
Mumpsimus comes from a story (perhaps first told by Erasmus) about an illiterate priest who mispronounced a word while reciting the liturgy. The priest refused to change the word, even when he was corrected.
 
old.edu
  • Something considered antiquated or eliciting nostalgia, but that in relative terms is a quite recent phenomenon; typically dating back no earlier than the year 2000. A variation on the term "old school."
One of my friends told me to 'MySpace' her. That's so old.edu.
 
History
  • Spanish-American War: ended when Spanish troops surrendered to US in Santiago, Cuba (1898)
  • House of Windsor: in the wake of anti-German sentiment, British royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg Gotha (1917)
  • Potsdam Conference: world leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill begin the final Allied summit of WWII (1945)
  • Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: for the first time, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit; it marked the warming US-USSR relationship (1975)
  • Woolworths: the last of the company's five-and-dime stores closed; over 9,000 employees went jobless (1997)
Birthdays
  • John Astor 1762
  • Luis Munoz-Rivera 1859
  • Erle Stanley Gardner 1889
  • Berenice Abbott 1898
  • James Cagney 1899
  • Christina E. Stead 1902
  • William Gargan 1905
  • Art Linkletter 1912
  • Eleanor Steber 1916
  • Lou Boudreau 1917
  • Phyllis Diller 1917 - Comedian
  • Gordon Gould 1920
  • Niccolo Castiglioni 1932
  • Mimi Hines 1933
  • Pat McCormick 1934
  • Donald Sutherland 1934 - Actor
  • Diahann Carroll 1935 - Actress, singer
  • Peter Schickele 1935 - Musician (P. D. Q. Bach)
  • Spencer Davis 1939 - Musician, singer (Spencer Davis Group)
  • Connie Hawkins 1942 - Basketball player
  • Camilla 1947 - Duchess of Cornwall, wife of Britain's Prince Charles
  • Cathy Ferguson 1948
  • Mick Tucker 1949 - Musician (Sweet)
  • Terence 'Geezer' Butler 1949 - Musician (Black Sabbath)
  • Mike Vale 1949 - Musician (Tommy James and the Shondells)
  • Lucie Arnaz 1951 - Actress
  • Phoebe Snow 1952 - Singer
  • David Hasselhoff 1952 Actor ("Knight Rider," "Baywatch"), singer, actor, living legend 
  • Angela Merkel 1954 - German Chancellor
  • Bryan Trottier 1956 - Hockey player
  • Nancy Giles 1960
  • Regina Belle 1963
  • Alex Winter 1965
  • Guru (Keith Elam) 1966 - Rapper (Gang Starr)
  • Stockley (David "Stokley" Williams) 1967 - Singer (Mint Condition)
  • JC (Jarret Cordes, J.C. the Eternal) 1971 - (PM Dawn)
  • Kitten Jones 1982
 
 
 Phyllis Diller | Walk of Fame
 
 
 
 
 

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