November 02, 2003

Only the king has a jester.

Aram asked me where "majesty" comes from. I quipped to cover that I didn't know:


OE. magestee, F. majest['e], L. majestas, fr. an old compar. of magnus great.

I do know that one addreses royalty in the ablative. And that Poe wrote the best story about a deformed midget jester getting revenge on a tyrant.

The Visual Thesaurus describes spatial relationships amongst synonyms.

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