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Today at a Glance:
Palm Coast Open: A USTA Pro Circuit Event: At the Palm Coast Tennis Center, 1290 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast. Check daily schedules here. In its 13th year, the Palm Coast Open features elite men’s tennis played on our hometown stage. Competitors worldwide travel to Palm Coast for a chance at winning a total of $15,000 in prize money and points toward their ATP ranking, a merit-based method to determine tournament entry and seeding based on men’s tennis rankings.
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email PalmCoastFarmersMarket386@gmail.com
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
‘Tuck Everlasting,’ at Limelight Theater, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. Tickets: $22.50. Book here. 7:30 p.m., except on Sundays, when the show is at 2 p.m. What would you do if you had all eternity? Eleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence, but not until she becomes unexpectedly entwined with the Tuck Family does she get more than she could have imagined. When Winnie learns of the magic behind the Tuck’s unending youth, she must fight to protect their secret from those who would do anything for a chance at eternal life. As her adventure unfolds, Winnie faces an extraordinary choice: return to her life, or continue with the Tucks on their infinite journey.
Woody Allen’s ‘Don’t Drink the Water,’ at Daytona Playhouse: Feb 16, 17, 22, 23, 24 at 7:30 p.m., Feb 18 and 25 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $20, $19 and $10. Book here. It’s the Cold War and an American tourist, his wife and daughter rush into the US embassy two steps ahead of the Vulgarian police who suspect them of spying. The ambassador is away and his hapless son frantically plots their escape with even a little time to fall in love. With Chris Sinnett, Suzanne Bonner, Sunnie Rice, Zachary Goodrich, Carrie Van Tol and Terrence Van Auken, among others.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
Notably: FlaglerLive isn’t without its language police, or at least its vigilantes, who like to take on commenters who don;t write the language the “right” way. The other day they took on someone who used the word irregardless. I hope the word never appears (without irony) in a FlaglerLive article, but I had to come to the guy’s defense. The complaint about “irregardless” is similar to those who, from time to time, and borrowing from an old John Birch Society meme, complain that we use the word “democracy” to describe the US, as opposed to “republic.” The complaint is as accurate as it is pedantic, and in irregardless’ case, it’s not all that accurate: even the OED recognizes the word, with a full entry, defining it as “In nonstandard or humorous use: regardless.” The Literary Digest, a journal, as far back as 1912 was asking: “Is there such a word as irregardless in the English language?” The endurance of the question alone answers is. Webster’s New International Dictionary of English Language labeled it “Erron. or Humorous” in its 1934 edition, trying to have it both ways: don’t use it, unless you’re trying to be funny. When I put the word “irregardless” in the Times Machine (the search utility of the New York Times, going back to its first edition in 1851), I get 52 results (the machine stops in 2002), including in a quote by the board of education the story refers to, in a story about an experimental district’s affiliation with the University of Massachusetts. “Irregardless of what happens,” the board president said, “we should know what has happened in the three years that the experiment has been going on.” This was in a front-page story from Nov. 10, 1969 (irregardless appears on the jump, on page 42), just above a story titled: “South Learning to Live with Desegregation.” Irregardless: it’s usage, people‘s usage, not non-existent word wardens, let alone grammar marms or the local school district, who ultimately decide what is and what isn’t a word. That’s how most of our own words have come to be, including every word I’m using in this comment. It’s all been an evolution: no creationism here. A rich, democratic, boundless evolution that gives us the great wealth of our language. I mean, where would Joe Pesci be without irregardless? The word made his career.
—P.T.
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But we have better news! Here is good old “okay,” an Americanism of purest ray serene. It is crisp, cooperative, happy, a perfect thing. It will live forever. And so the words and the phrases come and go, a thousand more than are here put down, and, they make much white water in the growing American language. Which leads us to say, “irregardless” of anybody, “good-bye for now,” recent cheery substitute for the old, definite “good-bye.” Some of the young ladies of today do it differently. They say “good-bye-ee,” with an accent on the second syllable so tentative and so wistful that you might think their hearts were going to break. Do not worry about them, for they do that to everybody.
–From a Topics of the Times item in The New York Times, Feb. 12, 1949.
I Just Love Flagler Beach says
RE: Flagler Beach Election Forum at Flagler Woman’s Club
Whoa, Bob Cunningham isn’t going to attend due to a medical issue? Really? The candidate for city commission that is new to Flagler Beach and that the majority of residents don’t really know anything about and he can’t attend. I don’t want to “step in it” if there is a genuine recent medical issue that just came up, but it’s all a little suspicious to me.
Pogo says
@Dave Grunland
The FLY, WORM, ROACH, TICK, and MOSQUITO are hatched by creation. MAGA MIKE chooses to be what it is — including its perfect imitation of the others.