Free/Three/Tree

Man, sometimes I wish I was a linguistics major. I picked up a really cool book entitled English Dialects while I was in the library looking for materials on the WTO (I know, yay). Its introduction starts off going all the way back to pre-Anglo-Saxon times. Imagine all the words that have been born, and grown up, and died in that time. A lot of the rest of it consisted of maps of England showing different pronunciation zones for particular words, like where the locals would pronounce "f" instead of "th" in a sort of Cockney way (it doesn't just happen in London!).

Back to econ. But later I will post some really good photos from the Decemberists show in Montreal on Sunday, which was so far beyond awesome that I just have no words. No wait, I do: fantastic! Ultra-cool yet whimsical! Ironic yet heartfelt! It was lovely. They played a lot of things from their most recent album, which I had not yet heard but am now very glad to have bought. We started off standing in the second row. However, Katherine worked her way up to the front row in time for Colin Meloy to fall to the ground in front of her, sing to her, and muss up her hair. I don't think she has quite recovered yet, frankly.

OK, now back to econ.