From the Word of the Day feed in the right-hand column:
dilatory \DIL-uh-tor-ee\, adjective:1. Tending to put off what ought to be done at once; given to procrastination.2. Marked by procrastination or delay; intended to cause delay; -- said of actions or measures.
Dilatory is from Latin dilatorius, from dilator, "a dilatory person, a loiterer," from dilatus, past participle of differre, "to delay, to put off," from dis-, "apart, in different directions" + ferre, "to carry."
And to think I almost waited until tomorrow to put this in.
June 16, 2008
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Just as a useless piece of into. when I saw that word it brought a song up my grandma used to sing when I was young called 'My old Man said follow the Van ' and the chorus had the word 'dilly ' in it and right off I knew your word and what it meant today ! in the song the guy is telling his wife to follow the van and dont dilly dally on the way , lol...oh its strange how things can rake a memory up from the past, ....ok im rambling just was happy I knew one of the words featured for a change !
It's a neat word, and the definition definitely suits me to a "T".
"Dilatory" is a funny word, wouldn't you say?
It almost sounds naughty, or even something silly like "Those pickles are so dilatory!" Maybe it's where armadillos live at the zoo.
I remember my first time reading the word "procrastination", and thinking
"I'll look it up tomorrow."
It's really not funny, because it's one of the deadly sins, I'm thinkin'.
I'm not a loiterer, though. I like to keep movin' out in public, move different directions.
No info is useless, Alison. Not to me; I feast upon trivia, love personal details about folks I know.
I post enough of mine, don't I?
Well you know me, I had to go looking for that song.. its what I do.. I have to keep myself occupied until Alison is on the same side of the ocean or I'll go crazy.. ;) I actually found the song on YouTube.. well not surprised really as you can find about anythig there My Old Man said follow the van
hey how did it get that blogger.com in front of the address, I didnt put it there! ..hmmm never saw that before... well just delete that comment if you would Mike, and this one too I guess... or I'm liable to start thinkng up post titles like "My lizbian ex-wife's dwarf feet in stockings and high heels" Or "Gay Rattlesnakes make their way to Texas by way of webmaster's Pampa site" lol
yes please delete this mess
lol
sorry
G
Every now 'n then a link gets screwed up G, esp. in the comments section.
Let's see if it will work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG-wjkB7gXM
I always have to go look up the code for an embedded link. Supposed to work that way, though.
Wish they had a fancy editor for posts and weren't so limited in what tags we can use.
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