Credit where credit is due . . .

[Rob D.]

Gotta thank you, Bob!

Your use of the word “spiel” gave me an *excellent* “hook” for this week’s homily!

[Charlie M. 1958]

On 2/17/2024 1:38 PM, Rob D. wrote:
> Gotta thank you, Bob!
>
> Your use of the word “spiel” gave me an *excellent* “hook” for this week’s homily!

I'd ask you to share with the group, but like tedw always says, it would
be pearls before swine. :-)

[Bob]

On 18/2/24 5:38 am, Rob D. wrote:
>Gotta thank you, Bob!
>
>Your use of the word “spiel” gave me an *excellent* “hook” for this week’s homily!

Blimey!
Spiel baited with spiel. :-)
Can you honestly say your flock swallowed *that* hook? :-(
--
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[Rob D.]

Ah.

There *appears* to be a relationship (trouble verifying) between “spiel” and “spel/spell,” which is involved with the root of the word “Gospel,” to which Jesus referred in the Sunday passage.

god-spel *itself appears to be an OE version of “Bona-Ventura,” (I’m doing this from memory, without notes, so some of this is surely wrong or misspelled!), which is Vulgar Latin for the Greek “euangelio,” the word actually used by the Gospel writer, which is thought to be a “victory-message” cast into the sky by the gait of a messenger after a battle.

So when Jesus said “Believe in the Gospel,” it *could* perhaps be read as “believe in the victory-message you have to look up to behold/you see when you look up/you see in the sky.”

Or not.

[Bob]

"Here’s our spiel on spiel: it’s well-known as a noun, and you may also be
aware that spiel can be used as a verb meaning “to talk extravagantly,” but
did you know that the verb can also mean “to play music”? That, in fact, is
the word’s original meaning, and one it shares with its German root,
spielen. (Spiel is also found in glockenspiel, the name of a musical
instrument similar to the xylophone.) In Scottish English, spiel is also
sometimes used as a shortened form of bonspiel, which refers to a match or
tournament of the icy game of curling.


Examples of spiel in a Sentence
Noun
I listened to the salesman's spiel but still refused to buy anything.
He gave me a long spiel about the benefits of joining the club.
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
Paco whipped out his smartphone, logged on to Instagram Live, and began to
spiel.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
Just landed: Travel news Have podcast, will virtually travel: A good travel
podcast acts as an aural postcard, spieling out details about a destination
for an audience that’s not jetting off—yet.
—Susan Seubert, National Geographic, 13 May 2020
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Word History
Etymology
Verb

German spielen to play, from Old High German spilōn; akin to Old English
spilian to revel

First Known Use
Verb

1870, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1

Noun

1896, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of spiel was in 1870"


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spiel.

PS: Does Google's AI even know what day it is?

[Socrates]

On 2/17/2024 11:38 AM, Rob D. wrote:
> Gotta thank you, Bob!
>
> Your use of the word “spiel” gave me an *excellent* “hook” for this week’s homily!

https://i.postimg.cc/hG03cSP6/spiel.jpg

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