<html><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>FICTIONARY <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“AVER, n” <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>BALLOT<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>March 9, 2009</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>Here you go, Fictioneers!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Vote your twos and ones for your favorites.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Votes due on late Monday, March 16<SUP>th</SUP>. I would give you a few more days, but then you wouldn’t enjoy St. Patty’s Day as much.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Around here, where there is a large Irish population, the drinking starts early, and for fear of drunk drivers, I stay off the road for a while.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good luck!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Linda, Defmeister <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PS<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Poems and jokes welcome as tiebreakers or for fun.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PPS<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Corned beef and cabbage dinners with Irish soda bread=my celebration.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>1)</FONT><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri size=3>Aver, n. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(a-VER, from Middle-English). <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hatred.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>2)</FONT><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri size=3>Aver, n.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[‘ei <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>vur]. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Suicide; also lunatic, madman.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>From the French <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">aviseur</I>, lit. ‘bird man’; refers to the very earliest attempts at heavier-than-air flight when men would throw themselves from high hills or buildings with their hand-made wings, and inevitably plummet to their deaths.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>3)</FONT><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri size=3>Aver, n. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[‘Ã: vÉš—supposed to be a ˘ over the s but I can’t find it-L], [‘a: fÉ plus a tall skinny box that my machine is lacking-L].<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Dutch haver, oats)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A Dutch beer made with oats, which can’t be labeled “Bier” in Germany because of the German beer law. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[The colon is actually two apostrophes, not available among my symbols—L]</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>4)</FONT><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri size=3>Aver, n.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ay-ver.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(fr. Med. Latin<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> haberius</I>)-the night watchman at a cemetery.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>5)</FONT><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri size=3>Aver, n.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(åv’ r).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The large log placed atop a May Day bonfire.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>6)</FONT><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri size=3>Aver, n.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>/É ™ËˆvÉ<ɹ/, fm. OE wÃ:r.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[The colon is actually two apostrophes not available in my symbols--L].<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“prudent, prepared”. 1) An unfortunate or disappointing discovery.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2) A coin found tails-side up, considered bad luck in some Euro-American subcultures.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>7)</FONT><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri size=3>Aver, n.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(AH-vur, AH-vuh).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A daily prayer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(American Catholic schools, from -ave maria-)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Have you done your avers yet?”</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>8)</FONT><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri size=3>Aver, n. (ā’ ver—there is supposed to be a squiggle ~over the e, but I could not find one-L).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[OFr., from L <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">habere</I>, to have.]<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In England, a horse or ox when used as a beast of burden.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Obs.]</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>9)</FONT><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri size=3>Aver, n.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(ah’-vay-er). (slang) <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A Catholic who insists on praying in Latin and rejects the reforms of Vatican II. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(From “Ave Maria”).</FONT></P>
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