I am currently working on finding out who did the design of the "peek-a-boo" page. I am drawn to it by both the handwriting/collage-style and the usage of peek-a-boo (even though there was a peak in the usage of the word peek-a-boo). Does anyone on this board previously already have any contact with anyone from this class?

It may have grown in popularity, but the ngram search suggests it is from a common phrase. I mean it’s a bit hard to quantify, but it’s really not exactly something people say to greet one another. I mean how many times a day do you say it? It sits in that sort of "well known and popular, but rarely used" category. I mean it’s familiar, but we only use it when we play games with babies.

On the whole I think it’s very speculative to think that there might be a connection based on probability, but I have a some patients for this particular example.

Normally this kind of "well what are the odds?" reasoning I think is misleading. But it does seem like maybe, just maybe it’s sufficiently uncommon that this could be worth pursuing.

Peek-a-boo was a very common phrase years ago. That is when people had a vocabulary. That’s when people didn’t say, perfect, 50 or 60 times a day. That is when they did not use the word, like, in every sentence they speak. So it doesn’t mean anything. It means nothing at all. There is no connection to the zodiac with that phrase. My grandfather was born in 1892 so I have a much better understanding of the English language then most anybody else alive.

I agree with Holmes here…(but not sure why the need to throw out such a good understanding of the English language by understanding the term "peek-a-boo").

The photos were simply being captioned and since it looked like they were playing "peek-a-boo"…it was just a cute gesture. It’s quite a common saying today too, Holmes.

That said, looking at various resources is a good thing! You never know what you might find.

My grandfather was born in 1892 so I have a much better understanding of the English language then most anybody else alive.

I’m not in the top 2 or 3 (or even top 10) of people with superior understanding of the English language, but I do know the correct word in the sentence quoted above would have been "than."

My grandfather was born in 1892 so I have a much better understanding of the English language then most anybody else alive.

I’m not in the top 2 or 3 (or even top 10) of people with superior understanding of the English language, but I do know the correct word in the sentence quoted above would have been "than."

Doh!

Guess it is the difference between knowledge and understanding but gladly even non native speakers are welcome, I guess.

QT