First Post

I have started another of what seems to be so many blogs now - each of them accorded their own specific function. Doubtless I will create more (photographs/free writes/ reviews are just three that come to mind),  as I feel more prone to write about specific things and keep them arranged and stored in specific places instead of   writing randomly about things which then look too haphazard and pointless.

This blog is only about words. Randomness is completely allowed. The fact that words will be the unifying theme ensures that it want ever be too loose - even if I do go from German to Latin or from old Somerset dialect to snatches of Elizabethan poetry or concentrate on trades and professions (a wealth of words and all their metaphorical possibilities emanate from the mouths of tradesmen everyday, and are then lost in the wind too slippery and secretive to be caught by writers and shamelessly used to shore a poetic image or firm up a character's traits.) 

So a repository of sorts - words and phrases, quotes and everything in between starting with:   

I heard Pueri pueri erunt recently on the radio. It was from a faux-letter written in to a radio show and read out by the presenter, about how as young boy pupils at a Grammar (hence the Latin I suppose) stitched up an unpopular teacher whom to the hilarity of the pupils wore an obvious wig. I can't remember the story exactly (perhaps in future I should make a better effort from now on to explain my sources) but as a kind of end note justification for making this pathetic teacher's life Hell (wearing an outrageous wig whilst teaching 14 year old boys is surely asking from trouble, the letter writer wrote: 'Ah well, Pueri pueri erunt' or 'boys will be boys.' 

I had never heard that expression so it becomes this blog's first entry.It should be quite easy to remember from  the word 'puerile' (childish) which is something boys - and indeed men - are often accused of being.  If I was to try and memorize this for quizzes and so on I would think: puerile puerile runts which is just about as memorable as it needs to be.