menze

Here’s the god’s honest truth: I don’t like the kids in mass quantity part, and am menze menze (I apologize to my Italian friends for bad spelling) on the learning part (although I would love to learn how to make my own California rolls … and pole dance).

All Hail Teachers! | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008

John Barbour, an archdeacon of St. Machar’s Church in Scotland, was the first to use it, in his epic poem, The Actes and Life of the Most Victorious Conqueror, Robert Bruce King of Scotland, written in the mid-1300s: “The King had in custom ay, / For to riss airly eurilk day, / And pas weill fer fra his menze, / Quhen he vald pas to the preve.”

Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006

John Barbour, an archdeacon of St. Machar’s Church in Scotland, was the first to use it, in his epic poem, The Actes and Life of the Most Victorious Conqueror, Robert Bruce King of Scotland, written in the mid-1300s: “The King had in custom ay, / For to riss airly eurilk day, / And pas weill fer fra his menze, / Quhen he vald pas to the preve.”

Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006