Today’s Zippy has taught me that furbish is a word.
Monday, September 27, 2021
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
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Simone Weil, in a letter
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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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It's interesting that the secondary definition of furbish is to give a new look. I've always thought that that's the definition of refurbish.
ReplyDeleteYes, they do share a common meaning. Ravel and unravel are a similar pair.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there are words like bimonthly, that mean two completely different things -- much to my recent surprise.
ReplyDeleteBryan Garner mentions that and suggests avoiding bi- with weeks, months, and years.
ReplyDeleteiterate and reiterate
ReplyDeleteNice one!
ReplyDeletePerhaps it’s a Canadianism but we usually use refurbish for both concepts as discussed above. Furbish is generally used as a synonym for supply (v.) as in this kitchen is furbished with all the modern conveniences.
ReplyDeleteThat’s interesting. So “furbished with all the modern conveniences” wouldn’t imply that the kitchen has been redone? It could be said of a kitchen in a new house?
ReplyDeleteYes new or otherwise. I expect it's a corruption of furnished.
ReplyDeleteI’ll have to listen for it.
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