(Inter)National Grammar Day

Today, Tues 4, Americans celebrate National Grammar Day. Down here, as we get Tuesday before they do, I propose we jump on their bandwagon. First, Fritinancy presents praise of the semi colon, and directs us to the semi colon appreciation society.

Meanwhile, Scribal Terror put us on to a dire idiom shortage, as reported in The Onion. What idioms are you willing to give up in order to conserve their depleted numbers?

MISSING LAW CODES

Cotton Nero A.i contains the oldest version of the Cnut law codes. I have this on the authority of A.G. Kennedy's article in Anglo-Saxon England 11. Dorothy Bethurum also describes Nero A.i as containing some ten law codes.

However, Neil Ker's immensely detailed list of the contents of Nero A.i does not appear to include I-II Cnut, II Edgar or the laws of Alfred-Ine. None of the missing law codes are described in Gneuss' short description of the manuscript EITHER.

I am distressed by this.

(also, my pet MS was nine books from the Pearl/Gawain MS in Cotton's libary. I wonder what his library filing logic was?)