Eleven salmon smoking

[venta]

The Kipper Issue is resolved.

Pier Road Seafoods seem wholly ungooglable. However, by arcane means involving a leaflet in with the offending fishes, I acquired a URL. Their website only gives old-skool contact details, so I just rang them. No, no problem. A new pair of kippers would be in the post tomorrow.

So, I thought service like that deserved to be advertised. Everyone who likes kippers should visit:

http://www.kippersbymailwhitby.co.uk/

And order a pair. Off you go, now.

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I have been consulting my Latin dictionary. This doesn't work for 'glamour', because it doesn't have Latin roots.

But for the other two, what seems to be happening is that the stem gets closer to its Latin spelling when the word is extended. The relevant roots are 'explano' and '(h)umor' (it didn't have the 'h' in 'pure' Classical Latin, but got it later).

I guess someone fiddled about with the extended versions when spelling was standardised, but why they didn't change the shorter versions too, I don't know. Perhaps the extra vowels had gotten themselves too well established by that time to shift them?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Thank you. That's looking like a way to a sensible explanation.

If verlaine (aka Mr. Latin-Coming-Out-Of-His-Ears) is passing, could he offer a comment, or any further examples ?