In Old English, "bone-house" was used to describe the human body. I remember thinking back then how nice it would be if we saw our bodies as houses/ homes instead. Then maybe we wouldn't keep trying to knock them down as we do.
Monday 26 September 2016
Was flipping through my ELL notebook from last year and saw the word "bone-house" (pronounced "bahn-hoos") written on the last page. Remembered scribbling it down in class one afternoon when Mr Tan was showing us a video on language change.
In Old English, "bone-house" was used to describe the human body. I remember thinking back then how nice it would be if we saw our bodies as houses/ homes instead. Then maybe we wouldn't keep trying to knock them down as we do.
In Old English, "bone-house" was used to describe the human body. I remember thinking back then how nice it would be if we saw our bodies as houses/ homes instead. Then maybe we wouldn't keep trying to knock them down as we do.
