Monday, 30 September 2024

Parent theses

Weird things pop in my head sometimes when I'm writing these missives. (To be fair, weird things pop in my head all the time, but to be specific today, and to be relevant to this posting, they pop in my head while I'm writing). I commented yesterday on the fact that I had put one set of parentheses inside another, (and for fans of things grammatical I am sure that was a cardinal sin to commit). But I noticed while writing that line that the word parentheses seems to be a combination of the words parent and thesis even though it bears no relevance to either. Things like that stand out to me. I have some kind of weird word savantism or something. So I looked up the definition and background of all three words to see how - if at all - they connected and I thought about writing a very long post explaining it all here, but then I realised how catastrophically boring that would be to read, so I shall leave it there and say 'see you in October'.
See you in October!!!

RC 30-9-24

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