My Great Grandfather 'GRAMPS' born in 1875,
said my thumb was called a THINKING FINGER
and it was named this long before it was called just a thumb.


Gramps said that every time he hit his THINKING FINGER (thumb) with a hammer
it made him then think long and harder the next time he did something without thinking first.

Friday, December 17, 2010

John J Bessey b. 1877 used the word REMEMBRANCE in his active vocabulary as we use that word on MEMORIAL DAY the day my mother died. MEMORY-1946

MEMORY: Computer sense is from 1946
remember
c.1300, from O.Fr. remembrer (11c.) "mindful" (see memory)

Remembrance Day, the Sunday nearest Nov. 11 (originally in memory of the dead of World War I) is attested from 1921.