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Bleh. First proper day back at work. Somebody 'cleaned' my desk, which basically means that my address book has gone missing, my report folder was stuffed in my Drawer of Deliberately Missing Items and that my desk is eerily, horribly clean.

I used to hate January, what with the grey skies and such, and the dreaded office clearout, but... I have discovered some cool things about this month:

1. Dear lord-- it's light at half past four in the afternoon!

2. I finally found out why January is called January! It's named after the deity "Janus", a two-headed god who looked back on the old year and forward to the new year. [/geek]

3. Um...that's about it.

This, however, is enough. I also have Switzerland to look forward to on my birthday, which means getting drunk in German. Oh, yes. That. I suppose it would do to actually listen to my brother Paul's German lessons right about now.

Switzerland! Squee.

(That's so January, dude. Mary and I are planning to go to Belfast in February. Ha!)

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Strong verbs demonstrate a change of tense by a change of vowel in the stem (the MnE equivalents like 'sing, sang, sung' etc.) while weak verbs have no vowel change and instead demonstrate conjugate by changes in the suffix. There are three classes of OE weak verbs. Class III has only four members: the verbs for 'think', 'say', 'have' and... 'live', I believe. To say in OE is... 'secgan' (-an always signifies the infinitive form), 'have' might be 'habban' or that might be a different form, and I can't remember the others. I've got to brush up on this stuff in preparation for Beowulf. :D

Dear lord... let me go and get a cup of tea, and read that again. :p