Famous encounters

[Pammy]

Ok. Dredge it up.
Then I found the ladies' room and used an even more remote aspect of my peripheral vision on the way back.

Well you just have to don't you?

[Innocent Bystander]

When I was up Coombe Hill for the Solstice, I ran into Phil Hardy... ...He admired my overtone flute...

[amar]

When I was up Coombe Hill for the Solstice, I ran into Phil Hardy... ...He admired my overtone flute...

[amar]

I spent the last weekend with Colin and Brigitte Goldie and with Ross Ainslie.

[dwest]

I just spent two weeks with family in Wisconsin, they and the neighbors will be talking about it for weeks. Probably help get them some free drinks in the local pubs. Always nice to do what ya can for family and friends. Police never even knew I was in town.

[The Weekenders]

It's less obscure if you know that the singular of the word "Kine" (Cows) is "Kye" (Cow).
Not just Derry, either. It's right across the 55th parallel. (In those Islands off Europe.)

Not just there either. I've heard "kye" for cow back in these mountains too.

That N terminal is an old english way of showing plural; that's the source of words like chicken, children, & oxen, although some have lost the plural sense. Kine and treen (carved wooden utensils) are known but rarer. E'en (eyes) is one that only shows up these days in ballads to annoy folksingers. It usually carries the rhyme, but most audiences won't get it, and there's no good word to substitute.

I thought e'en was a mangled contraction for evening... maybe it's both.

[Nanohedron]

My understanding is that "e'en" was a contraction for "even" (not only the adverb; the word also does double duty as an archaic for "evening"), and "een" (no apostrophe) was "eyes". Practically the same sound (although I personally would utter a highly elided "EE-in" for e'en, and and a more flat "een" for, well, een), so you have to go by context especially when you're not reading it. After all, "yestere'en" wouldn't mean "yestereyes".

[s1m0n]

My understanding is that "e'en" was a contraction for "even" (not only the adverb; the word also does double duty as an archaic for "evening"), and "een" (no apostrophe) was "eyes". Practically the same sound (although I personally would utter a highly elided "EE-in" for e'en, and and a more flat "een" for, well, een), so you have to go by context especially when you're not reading it. After all, "yestere'en" wouldn't mean "yestereyes".

Both. When the N-plural was everyday english, neither standardised spellings nor apostrophes as sign of contraction* were a part of the language.

*Actually, apostrophes in general.

[Pammy]

Years ago, my husband was married to someone else (she is a witch!).They went on holiday to Rome and were walking around the Vatican when they saw a little bit of a comotion. They went to have a look and it was the Pope. They were really up close, so the Pope blessed them and within that year she had an affair and they split up.
It was a blessing for my husband and me anyway!!

[Innocent Bystander]

(she is a witch!)

[Pammy]

An evil witch!!!!!!!!

Screwed her two childrens heads up to get at hubby

evil witch

P.S. should I have taken that personally?

[amar]

An evil witch!!!!!!!!

Screwed her two childrens heads up to get at hubby

evil witch

w=b, right?

[Pammy]

What does w=b mean

[dwest]

What does w=b mean

witch equals female dog

[Nanohedron]

My understanding is that "e'en" was a contraction for "even" (not only the adverb; the word also does double duty as an archaic for "evening"), and "een" (no apostrophe) was "eyes". Practically the same sound (although I personally would utter a highly elided "EE-in" for e'en, and and a more flat "een" for, well, een), so you have to go by context especially when you're not reading it. After all, "yestere'en" wouldn't mean "yestereyes".

Both. When the N-plural was everyday english, neither standardised spellings nor apostrophes as sign of contraction* were a part of the language.

*Actually, apostrophes in general.

Looks like I'm coming from Rabbie Burns' spelling (imagine that). I notice that Lancashire and Yorkshire dialect spelling uses "e'en" for "eyes".