Help Identify this Number 4 Mk. 2

[Surpmil]

I need to watch The Story of English still. I personally like the analogy that each major change in English arises when English meets another new language and takes it into a back alley to beat it up for its lunch money and some favorite trinket or piece of clothing. And let's not even start trying to figure out the Great Vowel Shift....

And I always thought it was more a process of peaceful assimilation! Not in Appalachia eh?

As for that old gun, the wood needs to come off and have a bath in linseed oil, "whether it needs it or not" as our ancestors used to say about bathing!

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[davidwrankin]

And I always thought it was more a process of peaceful assimilation! Not in Appalachia eh?

Finally found the original quote:

the writer James Nicoll said, “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a *CENSORED*. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and [rifle] their pockets for new vocabulary”

80% of English words originate in other languages. It’s not in our tradition to ask nicely to borrow them....

As for that old gun, the wood needs to come off and have a bath in linseed oil, "whether it needs it or not" as our ancestors used to say about bathing!

I wanted to follow up with pictures of the old lady post-bath, but Amazon dropped the ball. The first bottle of raw linseed oil disappeared somewhere in Miami FL (I just don’t ask any more), and the second bottle didn’t get here until I was out of town last weekend. However, the furniture (including a New NOS “long” stock off FleaBay) just got done soaking up a third (or maybe fourth, I lose count) coat of oil a few minutes ago, and I intend to hit it again a couple of times tomorrow, and then keep hitting it a couple of times a day until the wood has its fill. Then I’ll come back with photos.

The wood is already looking a lot healthier and richer.