Friday 1 May 2020

The Cottage and Quaintness

Are you aware of the etymology of the word quaint?

Do you imagine this cottage to be in the orné style or storybook style or otherwise picturesque?

Do you associate the cottage garden with an ornamental farm?

Are you well acquainted with quaintness?

Do you know much about the quaintness industry?

Do you associate quaintness with nostalgia or even eccentric, quirky behaviour?

Are you amused by the quaint?

Do you associate quaintness with peculiar traditions?

Do you think quaintness is usually rather whimsical?

Do you associate quaintness with vernacular architecture?

Do you usually put the words "cottage" and "quaintness" together?

Perhaps you currently live in a quaintly rustic hut or a stylishly converted barn.

Perhaps you associate quaintness with kitsch or confuse the two.

Do you associate quaint cottages with Merry England and/or historicism?

Do you know anything about Merry Australia?

Do you usually associate quaintness with anachronisms?