About your name, Switter...

[mmd]

How did you come to chose that particular word for your Forum handle?

Every Christmas my sister gives me an odd, interesting, or funny page-per-day desk calendar. This past Christmas she gave me one entitled, "Forgotten English"; a collection of words that once were in useage in the English language but that have now fallen out of vogue.

The word for May 16 was, "switter".

"To struggle like a drowning person; to splash or flounder about. (late seventeenth to twentieth centuries)" - Mairi Robinson's Concise Scots Dictionary, 1985

"To work in confusion, or in a confused manner." - John Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808

I kinda like the word, and hope to have both the opportunity and recall to be able to use it. "Hey, there! Stop swittering about and focus on your work!

[Canoez]

Hmmm... So you JUST got to the 16th?

I guess I'll stop swittering around....:)

[switters]

Switters was chosen as one of my favorite fictional characters, from a Tom Robbins book Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates.

The character does tend to switter, as do I, and it may not be an accident that Robbins chose that name. Until now I had never known about the definition, though I will start using the word switter now in that context.

Thanks.

Have a great weekend all,

[mmd]

Canoez, there is so much paper to go through on my desk on a daily basis that tearing off a page from my novelty desk calander sometimes gets lost in the shuffle. I have my Daytimer and MS Outlook to keep me aware of what day it is, though some may argue convincingly that I usually don't...

Switters, sorry for dropping the 's' from the end of your nom-de-forum.

[Canoez]

Well, I was gonna comment that according to my page-a-day I was still back in April...

The surface of my desk is supposedly a flecked blue surface, but that's only from memory. :o

[Vince Brennan]

Desks have actual surfaces? Who knew!

[JC 72]

Oh my! Forget ADD, I think I'll re-label myself. I've got the Switters!

[Mrleft8]

My page-a-day calendar tells me that the "Special on tap" at the WBF PUB tomorrow will be: Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye Ale from Healdsburg, California........ But that's irrelavent here.....Isn't it?....Nevermind.... Carry on....

[Paul Girouard]

Great word eh , I'll be throwing that one out at work . The poor SOB-ich's will really be confused then , not that thier not currently. Switter on!

Should the fact that my online dictionary say's it isn't in the dictionary bother me? Nah use it anyway , makum prove me wrong!



http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Switter


The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search bar above.

[Mrleft8]

..... And to be perfectly honest..... I figured it was a Scottish pronunciation of "sweater"..... But I wasn't going to comment until just now......

[mmd]

Paul G., the reason that it isn't in your on-line dictionary is the title of the calendar: "Forgotten English" <wink>

[Paul Girouard]

Paul G., the reason that it isn't in your on-line dictionary is the title of the calendar: "Forgotten English" <wink>



I Googled it as well and got this thread as the #1 item to check out.

I like it , the word , I shall do my best to get it off that calendar;)

Switting on :D Hopefully never in the first meaning of the word:eek: