Possibly one of the first English words that we (Tamil medium
folks) started using was Tailor .. .. .. there were so many tailor shops
– on the compound of Sri Parthasarathi swami temple at Peyalwar koil street run
by Subramani, a small 10 x 12 shop – there was– Jupiter Tailors at Big Street /
Alangatha pillai St was much bigger ! – VIP tailors was a famous name – and in
1980s a well dressed bearded Cheenu stitched his pant for Rs.100/- - we spoke
about that !!
After learning the English word for the person who stitches
clothes as Tailor, we developed doubt on whether it is ‘Taylor’ or ‘Tailor’ and
one Prof told me that Taylor is a name; Tailor is a profession
! .. .. ?!? – perhaps some Spanish/ Latin connection.
"Taylor" is a proper noun which is often translated as
"Taylor", and "tailor" is a noun which is often translated
as "el sastre". A tailor helps make your clothes fit you
better. The word tailor comes from the Latin taliare, meaning "to
cut." A tailor is someone who cuts and adjusts your clothing to better
fit. When you tailor a jacket, you have it taken in to better suit your
physique.
Read that letter Y was at one time far more commonly used
where we nowadays would use the letter I. The reason we now use I is because,
in the course of the Nineteenth Century, scholarship about words improved
dramatically, and scholars discovered that lots of these words they had been
spelling with a Y came originally from Latin, which had really used an I; and
which had only used Y for words of Greek origin.
Down under, when India played Aussie in finals of ODI
championship, Krish Srikkanth was brilliantly caught by a jumping Peter Taylor
– Taylor who ? .. .. had read that the man answered the car-phone,
he had just begun a 650km drive to visit family in Sydney. Their
18-year-old son Charlie was making his way in grade cricket as an offspinner
for Northern District, where Peter had played. Peter grew up in Sydney. His
family owned a car dealership, but, uninterested in selling cars, he studied
agricultural science at the University of Sydney. He hoped one day to become a
farmer. He had been an outstanding junior cricketer, at the same time as Allan
Border, and when the new of his selection was made known to him – he expected it
to be Mark Taylor and asked ‘Taylor-who ?’.
His final Test was against India, at the MCG in 1991. He was
replaced by Shane Warne for the Sydney Test. Taylor later bought a
wheat and cotton property outside Moree, which he still farms, and has since
developed a cattle property at Inverell. For a while in the late 1990s he was
an Australian selector. This Taylor is not the subject matter of the post
– but someother Tailor, a bird !
In serene atmosphere, you hear them loud .. . chirpy and in a
trice, they fly away ! flirting between trees and shrubs … found hard to
capture them on lens. They make an intriguing quirk
Understand them to be ‘common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius)’, a
songbird found across tropical Asia. Popular for its nest made of leaves
"sewn" together and immortalized by Rudyard Kipling as Darzee in his
Jungle Book. The common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius) is a songbird found
across tropical Asia. Although shy birds that are usually hidden
within vegetation, their loud calls are familiar and give away their presence.
They are distinctive in having a long upright tail, greenish upper body plumage
and rust coloured forehead and crown.
This morning was able to capture some clicks of this chirpy bird
!!
Away from Mark Taylor, Ross Taylor, little
known Peter Taylor, Sarah Taylor [the wicketkeeper batswoman, played for
Sussex alongside men too]………….the local Tailor was the person who made and
altered clothing for men and women…. while ‘women’s tailor’ still exist – the
men’s tailors are fast vanishing in city.
The lines at the start are from the album ‘Shake it off’ from the famous Taylor Alison Swift - an
American singer-songwriter. Her discography spans multiple genres, and her
narrative songwriting—often inspired by her personal life—has received critical
praise and media coverage. She is in
news, as two songwriters have dropped
their lawsuit claiming that Taylor Swift copied their lyrics in her 2014 No 1
hit Shake It Off, according to court documents filed. Sean Hall and Nathan
Butler told a Los Angeles federal judge they will dismiss their 2017 case with
prejudice, which means it cannot be refiled. A trial in the case had been
scheduled to begin in January 2023. In
Shake It Off, Swift sings: “The players gonna play, play, play, play, play, and
the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”
More than the law suit, its dismissal or the stunning catch I saw Peter Taylor take, I am
happy with the catch of Tailorbird featured here. .
13th Dec 2022
Good. Interesting!
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