English Concepts

Ideas that (Fortunatly) Don't Exist To My Knowledge:

• mead spoon
• mead meat
• hesitacio
• whale-road, sea-shingle, and friends
• luflongen ("in love with love")
• confessio
• the book Frankenstein
• historicity
• Fart of Darkness by Joe Conrad
• anuncio
• the wonderful TV program, "Joe Bachelor"
• quizziepooh
• "oh that wonderful Kennedy edition"
• sawed (past tense of see)
• quietude
• scopling
• "loyalty × 3000"
• lines 500-2500 of Beowulf

Ideas that (Unfortunatly) Do Exist To My Knowledge:

• trochee, dactyl, spondee, phyrrhic
• adverbs ending in -ly
• the twelve epic conventions
• wergild
• direct address: class
• "I love it when my students think but you are just absolutely wrong."
• Pop-Test
• Utopia Projects
• frame story
• sparknotes of Frankenstein
• absolutely and pals
• "You seem determined to fail."
• architectonically
• pagination
• "I'm a geography nut."
• belts without beltloops
• Chicago style
• lines 1-100 of Beowulf
• "Characters operate on a level..."
• MacBeth
• verisimilitude
• "Texas has cities and farmland."