Monday, July 28, 2025

ploce \PLOH-see\, noun: 

• the repetition of a word or phrase to gain special emphasis or to indicate an extension of meaning, as in Ex. 3:14: “I am that I am.”

Ploce comes from the Greek word plokḗ meaning "plaiting" as in "braiding." This extension of the word in a rhetorical sense as been used since Hellenistic Greece. 

 

Turn Up

• (v) getting wild or excessively crazy. Typically used in the context of a party. It is normally followed by a prepositional phrase (For the party, In that place, On that hoe) and it is often used in the past tense (turned up). "Turning up" is almost never said. As far as I can tell, it is the 2011 equivalent of what Getting Crunk was in the early 2k's and late 90's.

We turned up in Mr. Mitchell's class when he had a sub last week.

I turn up every weekend.

 

History 

• Maximilien Robespierre: Reign of Terror leader was guillotined in Paris during the French Revolution (1794)
• Peru: declared independence from Spain (1821)
• 14th Amendment: granted full citizenship to former US slaves; introduced new civil rights safeguards, due process, equal protection (1868)
• Austria-Hungary: declared war on Serbia, precipitating World War I (1914)
• Kennewick Man: prehistoric remains were discovered on the banks of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington, sparking a debate between scientists and Native Americans (1996)
• IRA: ended its armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland in favor of "exclusively peaceful means" (2005)

Birthdays

• Beatrix Potter 1866
• Joe E. Brown 1891
• Rudy Vallee 1901
• Richard Rogers 1902
• Cameron Dragon 1914
• Charles Hard Townes 1915
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929
• Darryl Hickman 1931
• Jacques d'Amboise 1934
  
• Peter Duchin 1937
• George Cummings 1938 - Musician (Dr. Hook)
• Phil Proctor 1940
• Mike Bloomfield 1944
• Jim Davis 1945
• Richard Wright 1945 - Musician (Pink Floyd)
• Jonathan Edwards 1946 - Singer

• Linda Kelsey 1946
• Barbara Ferrell 1947
• Sally Struthers 1948
• Georgia Bright Engel 1948
• Peter Doyle 1949 - Musician (The New Seekers)
• Simon Kirke 1949 - Musician (Bad Company, Free)
• Terry Fox 1958
• Lori Loughlin 1964
• Elizabeth Berkley 1972
• Afroman 1974