We had a fun Valentine’s Day. I pored over a flower display before selecting–as I always do–a dozen yellow roses, my favorites. And my wife made a lovely dinner. St. Valentine goes back a long way, to the 3rd century, and Valentine’s Day has been around for quite a while, too.
Today the British Museum did an Instagram post that reminds us that love has been making the world go round for a long time:
Let’s break that down:
I pray you that you will wear the ring with the image of St Margaret that I sent you for a remembrance till you come home. You have left me such a remembrance that makes me to think upon you both day and night when I would sleep.
Many of us moderns can relate. But this grammatical touch is especially impressive:
Although this ring does not have an image of St Margaret, it does carry a playful (and grammatically witty) inscription about love in French, which translates as: “My love is an infinitive which wants to be in the relative.”
To which one can only say: grammarians are hot!
Happy Valentine’s Day.
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