Archelaus descends upon two more stores in suburban Maryland!
Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at 1:41 pm, by Alethea Oglethorpe.
Today we sent a flunky to deliver cards to The Waygoose, an upscale gallery for American handcrafts (“from the silly to the sublime”), with locations in Bethesda and Rockville.
According to Dr. Hurlbutt, who can be relied upon to know these things, waygoose is an archaic word signifying an annual feast held by master printers for their employees around the time of St. Bartholomew’s Day (August 24), when the long summer days began to shorten and it became necessary to use candles in the workplace. The etymology of the word is obscure, but the plural form, waygooses, suggests that there is no relationship to goose/geese.
Cadwalader Crabtree wrote (on October 21, 2009, at 1:48 pm):
What I want to know is, why haven’t we had a waygoose? Management owes us a feast!