Monday, October 30, 2006
Why what-not?I mean, they way we use it (okay, maybe not in Singapore but in other places. Like Britain, and America and such. It is too still used...I'm not weird.) it seems like it should mean everything that is similar to our last examples. (babies and kittens and what-not; tea and jam and what-not, wars and famine and what-not)It seems like it could be substituted by "the like", "and such", "so on"...but it's so weird. What-not.Break it up and it's what and not.What is and what is not?Or just what is not, what is is not, or any other silly thing that i can come up with - bound to be a simple explanation. Somebody tell me what it is?What-not Piece of furniture with several shelves for bric-a-brac, figurines, etc. Introduced during the Victorian period in America.(http://www.newel.com/Glossary.aspx#w)apparently it's named for what it was supposed to hold. (i.e. Anything. Heh. I do think too much..) And did youknow that whatever has been in use since the year 1300 or so? So much for being cool...You learn something everyday...Eve.