The word “#trauma” comes from ancient Greek, and until the 19th century it meant a physical injury, a lost limb or damaged body part.
The word earned the definition of “psychic wound” during the #GildedAge and #IndustrialRevolution, as modern society abstracted away labor and suffering via automation and machinery.
It’s never been a disorder.
It’s a symptom of our altered states as we mechanize instruments of production and destruction.
PIG. Sixpence, a sow's baby. Pig-widgeon; a simpleton. Cold pig; a jocular punishment inflicted by the maid seryants, or other females of the house, on persons lying over long in bed: it consists in pulling off all the bed clothes, and leaving them to pig or lie in the cold.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
ACT OF PARLIAMENT. A military term for small beer, five pints of which, by an act of parliament, a landlord was formerly obliged to give to each soldier gratis.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
Essai à lire pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent à l'histoire nationale, la didactique en histoire et, très franchement, un politique sain qui puise dans des référents communs et universels.
Gérard Bouchard, Pour l’histoire nationale : valeurs, nation, mythes fondateurs (2023)
The weekend is nearly here and that means (hopefully!) gathering together with loved ones and sharing a meal or a feast. Watch out for the hare though, they are already tucking into the delicious grapes 🍇
BIBLE OATH. Supposed by the vulgar to be more binding than an oath taken on the Testament only, as being the bigger book, and generally containing both the Old and New Testament.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)