[lit-ideas] Re: With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino

My ex, who shares grandparentage with MY grandchildren, is called "Nonnie" by 
the grandkids.  I can't wait to tell her what it means. 

Not only that, but after high school she hie'd herself off to a nunnery for a 
year or two -- a place of vulvas as Speranza would have us believe, which I do 
believe and which I will pass on to her.  I, of course, hie'd meself off to a 
seminary -- a place of semen and sanctified wet dreams.   


Mike Geary
Memphis
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Ritchie 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:42 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino


  I was so pleased with this that I hie'd me off to the library bookstore to 
see if they had a Loeb or two.  Alas, there was none.


  David Ritchie
  wondering whether today's weather is boys' weather in
  Portland, Oregon



  On Oct 31, 2007, at 4:17 AM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:


    why on earth is shakespeare so interested in nonnies

    hey nonnie nonnie
    ho nonnie nonnie
    come nonnie nonnie
    sit nonnie nonnie
    wag your aspirant tail nonnie nonnie

    what was a nonnie anyway


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    Well, the OED provides some earlier quotes than Shakespeare. There's


    1533 J. HEYWOOD JPlay of Wether sig. Diii, 

              Gyue boys wether quoth a nonny nonny.

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