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omnibozo22 's review for:
The Silver Mistress
by Peter O'Donnell
Perhaps a coincidence or two too far, but the series continues to entertain me.
Willie used a term I don't remember coming across before "dactyliomancist." Dactyla is fingers, in Greek. Willie does go on and explain what it was, though the connection to fingers is a bit of a stretch. That's a person who uses a finger ring on a chain, hung over a drawing of a cross inside a circle, to tell fortunes. Most perfomers/seers today just call it a pendulum. Shut eye readers love 'em.
One other note on British English. Lately I've seen this construction frequently: "I'll catch you up." In American English we would say, "I'll catch up with you." Also, in American English, "I'll catch you up," means that I will help you with information you missed while sick, or out of class, or other situations like that.
English≠English!
Willie used a term I don't remember coming across before "dactyliomancist." Dactyla is fingers, in Greek. Willie does go on and explain what it was, though the connection to fingers is a bit of a stretch. That's a person who uses a finger ring on a chain, hung over a drawing of a cross inside a circle, to tell fortunes. Most perfomers/seers today just call it a pendulum. Shut eye readers love 'em.
One other note on British English. Lately I've seen this construction frequently: "I'll catch you up." In American English we would say, "I'll catch up with you." Also, in American English, "I'll catch you up," means that I will help you with information you missed while sick, or out of class, or other situations like that.
English≠English!