Except there's an old form Goemagot.
The shift (of accentual emphasis) to the antepenult seems to occur with an
increase in familiarity (or within a knowing in-group) and a
will-to-an-economical-acceleration: I've seen it happen with New Haven and
and even paper-bag. There is of course a possible difference in meaning:
"The Faerie QUEENE" says that the Queen (i.e., of England) is a racially a
fairy, while "The FAERie queen" says that the queen meant is the particular
one that is the monarch of the fairies (and not, say, the Queen of Scots).
On Wed, 30 May 2007 11:50:46 -0400
anne prescott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A fascinating text--it includes a foldout, as I recall, with a "bees
> madrigal" or swarming song. Linda Austern tells me it's famous in
> musicological circles because the words in the madrigal are "bzzzz bzzzz"
>etc. I like Charlie's namesake also because he notes that the ruler is
>female and that those (e.g. Aristotle?) who refer to a bees' king are just
>. . . and then he uses a word I can't remember but we would say "sexist."
>Right on.
> As for "Furry Queene" I've noticed an interesting
> generational shift. I say "Faerie Queene" giving both words an equal
> stress; I've noticed that a great many younger scholars (OK, OK, most are
>younger than I am these days) say "FAErie Queene." Fascinating to see such
>things evolve. There's also a difference between folks who say
>"or-gog-lio" and those who say "or-goh-lio"--I go for the latter, being so
>snobby and wanting to show I've been to Italy, but I'm not sure Spenser
>did. After all the (to my snooty ear) less sophisticated pronunciation
>has "Gog" in the middle, which goes with giants, being part of "Gogmagog,"
>or at least with (in the Bible) God's enemies. Anne P.
> On May 30, 2007, at 2:37 AM, Charles Butler wrote:
>
>> Then there's my namesake's *The Feminine Monarchie. Or a Treatise
>> Concerning Bees, and the due ordering of them* (1609) - which does
>> sound rather like an apiarist's *FQ*.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>
>> On 30/05/07, James C. Nohrnberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> An early design for the cover of AnFQ was suggested by Darcy
>> Thompson's On
>> Growth and Form re the hexagonal structures of the honeycomb (which
>> are
>> dictated like the pattern of crated oranges and some forms of rose
>> windows
>> in mediaeval cathedrals).
>>
>> On Tue, 29 May 2007 20:17:04 +0100
>> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> > It's not exactly a nickname but when I was lectured to by the
>> late Dr
>> > Thomas Matheson of the Shakespeare Institute of Birmingham
>> University, I
>> > recall that he had a residual Liverpudlian accent. Hence he
>> referred to
>> > The Furry Queene, or perhaps it was The Furrie Queene. Anyway,
>> for me it
>> > evoked the image of a large Queen Bumble Bee.
>> >
>> > Best wishes,
>> >
>> > Richard Ramsey
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>> James Nohrnberg
>> Dept. of English, Bryan Hall 219
>> Univ. of Virginia
>> P.O Box 400121
>> Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Website: www.charlesbutler.co.uk
>
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