And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, June 6, 2018, brought to you by Wannaska Men of Tomorrow, serving our community whenever.
June 6 is the 157th day of the year, with 208 days remaining until the end of the year, and 299 days remaining until April Fools Day.
Earth/Moon Almanac for June 6, 2018
Sunrise: 5:22am; Sunset: 9:23pm
Moonrise: 2:05am Moonset: 12:45pm, waning gibbous
Temperature Almanac for June 6, 2018
Average Record Today
High 70 92 72
Low 48 28 47
June 6 Celebrations
National Eyewear Day
D-Day
National Higher Education Day
National Applesauce Cake Day
National Drive-In Movie Day
National Gardening Exercise Day
National Yo-Yo Day
National Running Day
June 6 is the 157th day of the year, with 208 days remaining until the end of the year, and 299 days remaining until April Fools Day.
Earth/Moon Almanac for June 6, 2018
Sunrise: 5:22am; Sunset: 9:23pm
Moonrise: 2:05am Moonset: 12:45pm, waning gibbous
Average Record Today
High 70 92 72
Low 48 28 47
June 6 Celebrations
National Eyewear Day
D-Day
National Higher Education Day
National Applesauce Cake Day
National Drive-In Movie Day
National Gardening Exercise Day
National Yo-Yo Day
National Running Day
June 6 Notable historic events, literary or otherwise
1716 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana
1933 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden New Jersey)
1716 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana
1933 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden New Jersey)
June 6 author/artist birthdays
1799 Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer and poet, Eugene Onegin
1841 Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist
1875 Thomas Mann, German novelist, Magic Mountain
1909 Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
Words I looked up this week: cassoulet, incipient, retable, suborn
Answers from last week's Word-Wednesday quiz about unusual double letter words:
A: aarkvark, aardwolf, Afrikaans
H: bathhouse, hitchhike, withhold
I: radii, foliicolous, Hawaii, Pompeii
K: bookkeeper, jackknife, knickknack
U: continuum, muumuu, squush, vacuum
V: bevvy, civvy, divvy, flivver, savvy, skivvies
W: bowwow, glowworm, powwow, rainbowweed, yellowwood
I'd can the Chairman and the Jack Pine Savage building a squib/poem from some of these alliterative double letter words.
Today's edition of Wannaskan Almanac Word-Wednesday explores the limerick, a form of verse, generally in 5-line anapestic meter [ta-ta-TUM] with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA.
The first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with one another and having three feet of three syllables each. The shorter third and fourth lines also rhyme with each other, but have only two feet of three syllables. The defining "foot" of a limerick's meter is usually the anapaest, (ta-ta-TUM), but creative poets use weak syllables and extra-syllable rhymes to achieve a whimsical amphibrachic for comic effect (ta-TUM-ta).
In classic limericks, the first line introduces a person and a place, with the place appearing at the end of the first line and establishing the rhyme scheme for the second and fifth lines:
1799 Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer and poet, Eugene Onegin
1841 Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist
1875 Thomas Mann, German novelist, Magic Mountain
1909 Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
Words I looked up this week: cassoulet, incipient, retable, suborn
Answers from last week's Word-Wednesday quiz about unusual double letter words:
A: aarkvark, aardwolf, Afrikaans
H: bathhouse, hitchhike, withhold
I: radii, foliicolous, Hawaii, Pompeii
K: bookkeeper, jackknife, knickknack
U: continuum, muumuu, squush, vacuum
V: bevvy, civvy, divvy, flivver, savvy, skivvies
W: bowwow, glowworm, powwow, rainbowweed, yellowwood
I'd can the Chairman and the Jack Pine Savage building a squib/poem from some of these alliterative double letter words.
Today's edition of Wannaskan Almanac Word-Wednesday explores the limerick, a form of verse, generally in 5-line anapestic meter [ta-ta-TUM] with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA.
The first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with one another and having three feet of three syllables each. The shorter third and fourth lines also rhyme with each other, but have only two feet of three syllables. The defining "foot" of a limerick's meter is usually the anapaest, (ta-ta-TUM), but creative poets use weak syllables and extra-syllable rhymes to achieve a whimsical amphibrachic for comic effect (ta-TUM-ta).
In classic limericks, the first line introduces a person and a place, with the place appearing at the end of the first line and establishing the rhyme scheme for the second and fifth lines:
Der vas dis Vanaskan named Thor
By golly dat Norskie could snore!
His nostrils did thunder
And his neighbors did wonder
How Jackie could sleep in Thor's roar.
June 6 Riddle
If the following equation were a limerick, how would it read?*
From A Year with Rilke, June 6 entry:
The Apple Orchard (I), from New Poems
By golly dat Norskie could snore!
His nostrils did thunder
And his neighbors did wonder
How Jackie could sleep in Thor's roar.
June 6 Riddle
If the following equation were a limerick, how would it read?*
From A Year with Rilke, June 6 entry:
The Apple Orchard (I), from New Poems
Come now as the sun goes down.
See how evening greens the grass.
Is it not as though we had already gathered it
and saved it up inside us,
so that now, from feelings and memories,
from new hope and old pleasures,
all mixed with inner darkness,
we fling it before us under the trees.
See how evening greens the grass.
Is it not as though we had already gathered it
and saved it up inside us,
so that now, from feelings and memories,
from new hope and old pleasures,
all mixed with inner darkness,
we fling it before us under the trees.
Be better than yesterday, learn a new word today, and to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow.
*
A dozen, a gross, and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Is nine squared and not a bit more.
*
A dozen, a gross, and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Is nine squared and not a bit more.
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