The newsletter just went out! I sent it manually (read: painfully) and one batch went out without a subject (*hits head on table repeatedly*) – so if you received one of those, my abject apologies. I thought it was better to just apologize here then to resend it with the subject in place.

If you didn’t receive the newsletter, I have an htm version up at: http://www.annemallory.com/AprilNewsletter.htm

I’m going to be looking at better sending methods, or perhaps moving to a Yahoo Group. The next newsletter won’t go out until late October, so there’s some time to decide.

1811 Vulgar Tongue

To beat the hoof; to travel on foot. He hoofed itor beat the hoof, every step of the way from Chester to London.

Merriam-Webster

Walk : kick, trample : to move on the feet; especially : dance

1811 Vulgar Tongue

Vulgar appellation for the feet. You have leftthe marks of your dirty hocks on my clean stairs; a frequentcomplaint from a mop squeezer to a footman.

Merriam-Webster

1 : the tarsal joint or region in the hind limb of a digitigrade quadruped (as the horse) corresponding to the human ankle but elevated and bending backward : a joint of a fowl’s leg that corresponds to the hock of a quadruped
2 : a small cut of meat from a front or hind leg just above the foot

1811 Vulgar Tongue

An irregular mixture of numerous things.

Merriam-Webster

A heterogeneous mixture : jumble

Not to be confused with modge podge, a good decoupage glue.