The current blogpost represents continuation of an earlier post, dealing with wider issues, entitled 'DEATH and the AFTERLIFE, celestial #1' displayed on April 10, 2024 and April 10, 2025.
CURRENT CONTENTS: (#3 --April 10, 2026)
Memorial service
(Sic) to death
Will's last testament
Bequest ( 3 stanzas, a 'brief saga')
Author's Note: Although the short forms 'Will' and 'Bill' may be casually interchanged as first names (short forms of ‘William’), the nouns 'will' (as in 'last will and testament') and 'bill' are generally used with more careful scrutiny. ‘Will’ and ‘testament’ being essentially synonyms, the expression is a prototypical example of the redundant binomial expressions that seem to be loved by lawyers.
Subtle differences in the form of idioms may underwrite important differences in meaning. ‘At last’ and ‘at the last’ seem similar, but in fact their usage and meaning differs considerably.
(Note that the three stanzas of this "brief saga" can be found with more photos and in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.)
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