Showing posts with label Your Royal Highness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Your Royal Highness. Show all posts

Monday, February 18, 2008

Word of the Week

Okay, okay, maybe its a phrase rather than word, but close enough. "Word of the week" is a much catchier title than "phase of the week". So, let's get on to it: the word/phrase is "your highness". Here are the definitions from American Heritage Dictionary for "highness":

American Heritage Dictionary
high·ness (hī'nĭs) Pronunciation Key n.
1.) Highness Used with His, Her, or Your as a title and form of address for a prince or princess: Her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret.

2.) The quality or condition of being high.

3.) The words of commendation and acknowledgement spoken humbly from Tiny Boarder to Danger Boy while buying/serving D.B. a beer after losing the "is that a ski pole?" bet, by a landslide. (or should we say avalanche??)

As with many words in the complex english language there are often several meanings associated with it. We like #3 in this case!