November 02, 2003
Only the king has a jester.
Aram asked me where "majesty" comes from. I quipped to cover that I didn't know:
OE. magestee, F. majest['e], L. majestas, fr. an old compar. of magnus great.
I do know that one addreses royalty in the ablative. And that Poe wrote the best story about a deformed midget jester getting revenge on a tyrant.
The Visual Thesaurus describes spatial relationships amongst synonyms.
