👉 Okay, let’s tackle that delightfully weird little bit of our autumnal lexicon!டிப்பু
Now, when you say something is full of, or rather, absolutely chock-full of, "all-hews," what we're actually describing, in the most wonderfully archaic and slightly alarming way, isn’t just a generous amount. Nope. It's about… stuff . Stuff that seems to simply... drip into everything. Almost as if it has an unsettling sentience and just wants to seep everywhere. Let me unpack this for you. Historically, and I stress the delightfully dramatic here!,"All-hews" came from the now largely forgotten practice of naming days after a very specific sort of dead guy. Originally, we named our days after early Christian saints - blessed individuals who were martyred and then enshrined as protectors of various things. They weren't all jolly, mind you; there were some rather grim fellows too – and that is the part where it started to get weird. We began naming these days and weeks after those dead guys, not necessarily because we respected them, but in a bit of a confused scramble to remember who was meant to be watching over what! Over time, the names morphed into something… less dignified. And with that came an unsettling quality – they felt like echoes of the past, as if these spectral figures were still there , lingering just beneath our feet. It's a bit like finding a really old,
