My Luck Could Change

Birth Tree?!

According to the Birthday Calculator, my birth tree is the Ash, "The Ambition."  And since it's so flattering I'm sharing:

Ash Tree, the Ambition Uncommonly attractive, vivacious, impulsive, demanding, does not care for criticism, ambitious, intelligent, talented, likes to play with its fate, can be egoistic, very reliable and trustworthy, faithful and prudent lover, sometimes brains rule over heart, but takes partnership very serious.

Don't Bother...I Didn't...

Between my job, my lawn and my homework, I have worked 14 hours out of the last 24.  On a Sunday.

Work was slow last night, which meant me practicing my shots.  Mostly on myself.  So work left me with a hangover.

Then, my whole front lawn was completely dead and weedy and Erwin agreed to help.  He tilled while I boosted the soil and sowed.  And picked out rocks. And raked.  And watered.  And watered some more.  For 5 1/2 hours, completely, absolutely, laughably COVERED in dirt.  My lawn should look great in a few weeks, but all that manual labor's got me sooooore.

And now tonight, after all that hangover and soreness (which is only going to be worse tomorrow...I'm afraid), now I've got Grimm's Law and Spanish homework using up every last flash of brain power I have left.  Yet I'm posting.

Just to bump that damn table further down the page.  Off to work on impersonal constructions!  Yippie!!

Grimm's Law Table with Example Words, Linguistics

Had I been able to find this on the web, put this simply, this homework might not have taken me as long as it did.  Hopefully this will help some overworked linguistics major sometime in the future...if I did it right.

                                                                               

Original Phoneme	New Phoneme After Change	Word Whose Root Exemplifies Original Phoneme	Word with Morphologically Related Root That Demonstrates Phoneme Change
/p/	/f/	pedal	foot
/t/	/Ө/	maternal	mother
/k/	/h/	cornucopia	horn
/b/	/p/	turba (Latin: crowd)	thorp (OE: village)
/d/	/t/	cardiac	heart
/g/	/k/	genuflect	knee
/f/	/b/	fragment	break
/Ө/	/d/	thyroid	door
/h/	/g/	hostel	guest

Grimm’s Law Table