David Parsons took in the Back Bay as the New Year arrived.
Leslee captured the Public Garden bridge on First Night:
Top photo copyright David Parsons. Bridge photo posted under this Creative Commons license. Both posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
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Happy New Year, Adam!
By anon
Wed, 01/01/2020 - 5:46pm
Keep up the good work, sir.
Gonna be a long sunshiney year?
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 01/01/2020 - 8:06pm
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FscIgtDJFXg[/youtube]
Here's the Jimmy Cliff version!
By anon
Wed, 01/01/2020 - 8:31pm
Thanks Swirly.
Never heard the original. Love this one though:
https://youtu.be/MrHxhQPOO2c
Prudential building just says "20"
By Ron Newman
Wed, 01/01/2020 - 9:09pm
and not the full year (2020) as it has in previous years.
Maybe they thought it would be redundant
By mg
Thu, 01/02/2020 - 12:24am
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You weren't standing in the right spot!
By fungwah
Thu, 01/02/2020 - 9:33am
You just need to stand kitty-corner so you can see that the full year is spelled out across two sides of the building :P
Phrase mis-hearing origin
By Cynicus
Thu, 01/02/2020 - 4:43pm
I've always found the expression "kitty-corner" interesting... nothing to do with cats, it's derived from mis-hearing the original phrase "cater-corner" (itself mis-heard from Latin quattuor meaning "four" as in "four corners")...
I wonder if there's a general name for phrases that are based on mis-hearing other phrases, like "monkey wrench" (several possible disputed origins, none of them involving monkeys, like "Moncke Wrench" after a possible inventor)... or "Pennsylvania Dutch" from mishearing "Pennsylvania Deutch" (immigrants from Germany, not the Netherlands)... I don't know a general term for that kind of phrase shift.
Hmm yeah
By fungwah
Thu, 01/02/2020 - 11:27pm
It seems similar to a mondegreen, but that's more in song lyrics or full phrases I think. Not sure if there's a word for it when it occurs with an individual word.
Folk etymology
By capecoddah
Fri, 01/03/2020 - 12:45am
Folk etymology is a term for the explanation. Sometimes people use it as a term for the victimization of a word or term.
In my lifetime I am pretty sure folk etymology is going to allow the spelling of segue as segway.