tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post6714895117985401480..comments2024-03-27T07:14:36.800-04:00Comments on <b>Dawn Potter</b>: Dawn Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500960150846895633noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post-51123094856543125162011-04-15T07:09:11.942-04:002011-04-15T07:09:11.942-04:00Thank you so much for coming to the reading last n...Thank you so much for coming to the reading last night. I loved just sitting around and listening to people talk after the reading. It really is a pleasure to hear what an audience thinks and feels after hearing poems in the air.Dawn Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07500960150846895633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post-25295741207220564242011-04-14T22:32:22.205-04:002011-04-14T22:32:22.205-04:00Thank you for travelling to Rockland to read your ...Thank you for travelling to Rockland to read your very fine, and evocative poetry.<br /><br />It was a good reminder that the Internet experience of anything is no experience at all.<br /><br />(And may your prose work find a publishing house!).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post-30212935715577516172011-04-14T21:41:54.676-04:002011-04-14T21:41:54.676-04:00In the early 19th century the Noah Websters of the...In the early 19th century the Noah Websters of the world were just in the process of establishing American spellings of common words that, if you look in the OED, are apt to have appeared in various guises in the case of words with OE, OF or otherwise uncertain roots like soop/soup or rascaille/raskal, whereas the only change for the Latinate penitentiary appears to be a "c" in the place of a "t" on occasion, as the word travelled through time. <br /><br />In the case of "Greenpeacer" Brown, it's his thought that counts -- one more particle of light in the midst of great darkness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post-66767630536378849962011-04-14T12:40:58.890-04:002011-04-14T12:40:58.890-04:00That thought occurred to me as well, and makes sen...That thought occurred to me as well, and makes sense, I think, given that "official" and "Magnificence" are also spelled correctly. Isn't it interesting that spelling is a mirror of pedagogy? Possibly this isn't a mirror one would want to examine too closely today. . . .Dawn Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07500960150846895633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post-70674280990237087742011-04-14T12:24:45.590-04:002011-04-14T12:24:45.590-04:00I wonder if penitentiary's spelling results fr...I wonder if penitentiary's spelling results from it's being a Latinate word, unlike soup. I'm not sure of the dates of widespread spelling standardization in English, but an educated man would know his Latin!<br /><br />TomThomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00728833912774550205noreply@blogger.com