Wow, does this sound familiar …<\/p>\n
Lithermon’s-load: <\/em>A greater load than can well be carried at one time, but is nevertheless undertaken to save the trouble of another journey — a lazy man’s load. Old English lither<\/em>, bad, wicked, has a secondary meaning of “lazy” in some of our early writers.
— Georgina Jackson’s Shropshire Word Book<\/em>, 1879 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n
(from Jeffrey Kacirk, Forgotten English <\/em>page-a-day calendar, 25 Jul 2008)<\/p>\n
I’m always very much into carrying everything in one load if at all possible, even if it means for a precarious burden. Maybe because I get so easily distracted at the other end. Or because I’m, indeed, lazy. I need to remember this word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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