DUBIUM – today’s Latin word is a 2nd declension neuter noun that means DOUBT.
For instance…in light of Richard Armitage’s latest tweet about the loan of a Gibson Les Paul model guitar,
one might conjecture that perhaps there is a pending biopic of an iconic Les Paul favoring guitarist….
However, talented as he is, I have DUBIUM that Richard Armitage will be playing Slash 😀
No DUBIUM a little G-n-R is in order…
Rock on Armitageworld!
Ancient Armitage 
In dubio pro reo, though… you never know. We have been wondering on Twitter, whether RA may play Brian May? More hair…
Oh, and your post title catapulted me back into my teenage years, straight into my Latin class. “Hodie” – in our pubescent minds that word was just sooooooo funny because it shares four letters with the German word for “testicles” (Hoden). Silly memories.
I wondered too about that rumored Queen biopic – almost the same hair as Slash (two for one on the photo edit!)
Wow. Well. A lot of people would see that!
Other avenues of speculation: Les Paul himself?
Now wouldn’t that be interesting. He was from Wisconsin you know…
Oh… now, THAT would be interesting… Although: Accent issues?!
Maybe, but he was from Waukesha…western suburb of Milwaukee, so not as strong as some areas. Think Fargo and turn right 🙂
He could get away with American standard for that. No need to add our weird long vowels from up here. I looked into this semester and the main dialect lines cut through approximately in synch with the glacier.
That makes sense…there are pockets of really strong “Wis-khan-son” in the Milwaukee area, but it’s not universal.
That’s interesting much more than for the accent for the characters Something different I’d love that!
So many people seem to lament when he veers away from the British accent. I love his native accent, but I do really like to hear him speaking others.
I’ll route for it the day he does it well 😊until then… the snippet from the B ST trailer only made me worry… ‘murderer’
The more you describe it, the more I’d like to hear him try…
LOL…usually what happens is that people go over the top with it. He could spend a weekend up nort’ fishing with my paternal cousins and call it a dialect immersion class!
Yeah, like with that recent SNL skit that was supposed to take place in Fond du Lac. I was like, no, we don’t live in Canada OR the Dakotas …
Was listening to a political from a super-PAC last night on the Senate race and the speaker said “WES” for the first syllabus and I thought, yup, made in California.
Ack…I detest the “Wesconsin” business.
My Philly spouse still asserts that everyone around here sounds like the Gundersons of Fargo. Um….no.
Things you learn when you are teaching out of area. http://news.wisc.edu/linguists-set-sights-on-skahnsin-english/
I heard that the other day…a colleagues husband was saying that when she spends time with her mom and sisters she goes all “Skhany”
There are a lot of people who have married across that line or commute across it all the time. I notice my vowels changing while I am here but not extremely.
I had tamped it down, but I fear I’ve gone native again…
Well, why don’t YOU offer your services *grins*???
Well…I imagine he’d probably need to hear more than “um…ah….um” LOL
also: lake flies.
They’re just about done now aren’t they? (I haven’t gotten within a mile of the lake, so I haven’t seen any)
Ack, I trust in your abilities to pull yourself together and form coherent sentences 😉
Perhaps…although on the other side of the aisle, I find I have a tendency to babble when I’m nervous. (Maybe I would need to use that old trick of imagining the person is in his underwear…*crap* I don’t think that’s going to help me here at all!!)
Eeek, that’s the worst you could do. Francis’ tighty underpants come to mind. Not that that is unpleasant. But counterproductive!
My thoughts exactly…let’s not even talk about Lee’s Speedo!!
Or Paul’s lack of thereof…
Yeah, I’m thinking a solid layer of cloth from nips to knees would be a good rule of thumb!
kaftan? baby doll?
sarong? unitard? The possibilities are boundless.
Doubtless he would look fabulous in each and every one of them…
See, we snickered endlessly about Roman coinage…”two asses for a loaf of bread”
Oh, Latin had an endless capacity for triggering smutty pubescent thoughts… I remember it fondly 😀
He’d have to wear a wig again, I think!
just a bit…photo edit pending
You know what??? Now that looks eerily spot on!
Similar lines I think…
LOL, he actually looks good with that hair!!
I wonder if this is connected at all to the Liz Himelstein follow a few weeks ago.
Hmmm…very interestink!
Oooh! Richard with 80’s rock star big hair and skin tight spandex leotards! Ha! Wait a minute! Sighhhh!