Commonwealths

Eke, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Eke?

I work in an organization with state and territory members, so the commonwealths are fairly familiar to me. However, just recently Shu and I had been talking about this, and I had found this site. What do they mean by "Territories and commonwealths are partially self-governing areas that have not been granted statehood." Surely those 4 states are not self-governing and they do have statehood. Further, it says that Washington DC, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico are commonwealths. I think the latter 2 are territories. I have no idea what Washington DC is, but I didn't think it was a commonwealth; after all, it's only a city.

Eke?

Eke.

As in When Zephyrus eke with his swoote breath ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:@pple/List_of_archaic...r_modern_equivalents

Zephyrus

Yes. It's related to German auch with similar meaning.

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Originally posted by zmježd:
Zephyrus

Yes. It's related to German auch with similar meaning.

I'm not following this. What has auch to do with one of the four winds?

I'm not following this. What has auch to do with one of the four winds?

Nothing. I was talking about eke, with which I grew fatigued, so I used Zephyrus to proxy for the whole Chaucerian line that arnie quoted. But, you're in good company, Asa. Nobody on this board follows me ... and if they did they'd become lost and probably starve to death ...