During today's Calc class, we got an answer right and I said to Miss Language, "Doesn't that just warm your heart?"
She said, "Well, yes, the cockles of my heart."
I digressed (nota bene: we digress often and willingly during calculus) into, "Exactly what is a cockle, anyhow?"
She explained that it is like a cockle and mussel.
I told her that she is no doubt right, as the heart is a muscle.
Then we got back to the regularly scheduled lesson. 
(Although a quick internet search indicates that, disappointingly, cockles is a derivative of the Latin word for ventricles. But who would go around saying that something "warms the ventricles" of their heart? And, come to think of it, the meter of the song falls apart if you go with "Alive, alive, O-oh, Alive, alive, O-oh, Crying Ventricles and Mussels, Alive, alive, Oh.") |
