Plurals and tarot

[Tabouli]

Glenda:
<<'I'm going to do some mathematics'

I personally would say only the last one is correct....meaning, by the use
of the word 'some' that the word mathematics is a plural.>>

Mmyes, but when you abbreviate a plural word, does the abbreviation necessarily have to be plural?  Being Australian, I say "maths", but we also said "phys" for physics (though I admit "physes" lacks a certain fizz).

Glenda wrote:
> Wands - wit  and learning- Ravenclaw
> Pentacles - work and the physical world - Hufflepuff
> Cups - emotions - Gryffindor
> Swords - power of the mind, light and dark - Slytherin

Well yes, I queried how appropriate Cups were for Slytherin: I just based my assignment on what my first contact with tarot taught me: Wands as energy and creativity (fire), Pentacles as earthy material things (earth), Cups as emotions (water), Swords as intellect (air).  I agree that swords, grim as most of them are, are more Slytherinic... (for years I kept on getting the Queen of Swords symbolising me in readings, to my chagrin.  Often accompanied by Justice, as if to rub it in.  Wot, me, the chilly intellectual emotionally repressed ice-queen??  Grrrng.  Fortunately, she seems to have vanished of late). 
 
Miller:
>Minor arcana suits would be
> more Harry-ish as Wands, Sickles (wizard money not 
> the Grim Reaper tool), Cauldrons and Broomsticks.

Now *this* is masterful.  That way Slytherin, with Snape at the helm, can be Cauldrons, Gryffindor can be broomsticks, Ravenclaw wands and Hufflepuff sickles.  As for who to fill the various roles, who knows who JKR might introduce in the last three books?  We'd have to leave it until then.  And what's the ghastly news that we'll have to wait a year at least for OoP (c/o The Leaky Cauldron)?  Arrrg...!

Tabouli.


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