Good to remember as it gets colder:
From Here’s to Warmth! (Sheboygan: Plaid Manufacturers Council, 1954).
Friday, October 9, 2009
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Who are we as a country?”
Michael Leddy
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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
comments: 6
Do you have any idea why plaid is pronounced "plad" and not "played?" This has always bothered me.
The Oxford English Dictionary notes that the New English Dictionary (1907) has that pronunciation. Why we say “plad,” though, I don’t know.
When I was taking a ballet workshop in England at the age of 10 and had to braid my hair for class, my (British) classmates called my plaits "platts."
By coincidence, I bought a plaid skirt today... :)
Yep, that’s the British pronunciation, though I didn’t know it before looking it up. (Thank you, OED.)
Plaid is not a fabric. A cotton shirt with a plaid pattern is no warmer than a cotton shirt with a floral pattern.
Plaid manufacturers council? Where did you find this?
There is (was) no Plaid Manufacturers Council. I wrote this dowdy Q&A and used the Futura font and colors to make it look age-appropriate. I thought the joke would be obvious, but maybe not.
But as for the claim that plaid is no different from a floral pattern, well, I stick by my post’s title: “Plaid really warmer.”
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