[lit-ideas] Re: Self Construction and Aspect Studies/Stoney Ground


On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
aspect. Etym. n. of action f. a-, ad-spicere to look at, f. ad to + specere 
to look.
JLS encouraged me to open vol. one of the Oxford and to discover my error. Now I am red in aspect and I aspect the coming of opprobrium in large volume. 

Yes, it can be used as a verb, meaning to look for or expect.
Thus, perhaps, the error we see all around, "No credit cards excepted." Cue dissertation on the "a" for "e" conflation.
As for Paul Stone's question about rhyme...Jane Shaw Whitfield, "The Improved Rhyming Dictionary" divides rhyme first into two categories, "rhyme" and "imperfect rhyme." Imperfect rhymes are words which contain the rhyme sound, but in which the sound is not accentuated. "Some" and "one" clearly doesn't fit this category. Then she discusses "consonance," "as for example, late, let, light, lot, lute." And then she refers to masculine and feminine rhymes, the masculine being not stronger...but single. This was her view in 1955.
Today, of course, things are much looser and poets and scribblers get away with murder. 

Band on the run, band on the run.
And the jailer man and sailor sam were searching every one
I can only conclude that the term you're looking for is "murder." Robert Paul will almost certainly have other, more useful thoughts. 

David Ritchie,
fond of a row and so not letting go in
Portland, Oregon

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