Tulsi Gabbard at the Hawaii Cauci from Reddit

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

[shireen]

1. I have to ask ...

what's "cauci?" I googled it and could not find anything.

Not being critical. Just curious, and maybe slight good-natured teasing at a fellow Bernian.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

2. Is it Caususes or Cauci? Most words end in -us become plural as -i nt

[shireen]

3. English is a weird language ....

I'm a technical editor. The general rule for US writing is that if it's not in Merriman-Webster, it's not a real word.

But I like "cauci." If enough people start using it, they'll have to add it as a new word. They added "clickbait" last year.

[RoccoR5955]

5. English is Cuh-razy!

PETE SEEGER
"English Is Cuh-Ray-Zee"
(as written, not necessarily as sung (But then Pete never sang a song the same way twice))

English is the most widely spoken language in the history of the planet.
One out of every seven human beings can speak or read it.
Half the world's books, 3/4 of the international mail are in English.
It has the largest vocabulary, perhaps two million words,
And a noble body of literature. But face it:
English is cuh-ray-zee!

Just a few examples: There's no egg in eggplant, no pine or apple in pineapple.
Quicksand works slowly; boxing rings are square.
A writer writes, but do fingers fing?
Hammers don't ham, grocers don't groce. Haberdashers don't haberdash.
English is cuh-ray-zee!

If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth?
It's one goose, two geese. Why not one moose, two meese?
If it's one index, two indices; why not one Kleenex,two Kleenices?
English is cuh-ray-zee!

You can comb through the annals of history, but not just one annal.
You can make amends, but not just one amend.
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one, is it an odd or an end?
If the teacher taught, why isn't it true that a preacher praught?
If you wrote a letter, did you also bote your tongue?
And if a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
English is cuh-ray-zee!

Why is it that night falls but never breaks and day breaks but never falls?
In what other language do people drive on the parkway and park on the driveway?
Ship by truck but send cargo by ship? Recite at a play but play at a recital?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
English is cuh-ray-zee!

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same
When a wise man and a wise guy are very different?
To overlook something and to oversee something are very different,
But quite a lot and quite a few are the same.
How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?
English is cuh-ray-zee!

You have to marvel at the lunacy of a language in which your house can burn down
While it is burning up. You fill out a form by filling it in.
In which your alarm clock goes off by going on.
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress?

Well, English was invented by people, not computers
And reflects the creativity of the human race.
So that's why when the stars are out, they're visible,
But when the lights are out, they're invisible.
When I wind up my watch I start it, but when I wind up this rap,
I end it. English is cuh-ray-zee!

[Jenny_92808]

7. I loved watching that

Thank you for posting it

[RoccoR5955]

10. You are quite welcome

Pete was always ahead of his time, and always sang for the kids. Even if he had to make a rap for them.
I sure do miss him, and his wife Toshi, they were like family to me.

[paulthompson]

9. another

That reminds me of this very funny song by Allan Sherman:

[RoccoR5955]

11. Hilarious! n/t

[jeff47]

4. Typically, -i is an over-correction when the word has been adopted in English.

Caucuses is the correct term.

[Scootaloo]

6. In Latin, yes. "Caucus" is not a latin word

In fact it's an etymological mystery. No one seems to know where, exactly the word comes from, though it seems to have originated in the United States sometime in the mid 18th century. Leading theory is that it's of Algonquin origin. So the plural of caucus would become caucusog (Or perhaps caucusun, if we regard it as an object independent from the people participating)

[Jenny_92808]

8. I was very happy to hear

that Tulsi Gabbard quit her job with the DNC so she could endorse Bernie! Way to go Tulsi!