A girl named Thing

Sorae, you have it backwards. The verb tagen, to hold a Tagung/meeting, comes from the noun Tag = day or parliamentary assembly. How Tag got to mean assembly is more complicated than I realized. From wiki on "diet":

The term (also in the nutritional sense) is derived from Medieval Latin dieta, meaning both "parliamentary assembly" and "daily food allowance", from earlier Latin diaeta transcribing Classical Greek δίαιτα diaita, meaning "way of living", and hence also "diet", "regular (daily) work". Through a false etymology, reflected in the spelling change replacing ae by e, the word came to be associated with Latin dies, "day". The word came to be used in the sense of "an assembly" because of its use for the work of an assembly meeting on a daily basis, and hence for the assembly itself. The association with dies is reflected in the German language use of Tagung (meeting) and -tag (not only meaning "day", as in Montag—i.e. Monday—but also "parliament", "council", or other law-deliberating chamber, as in Bundestag or Reichstag).

English-speaking schoolchildren get a chuckle out of Luther's being summoned to the Diet of Worms.

I was just entering concert dates of a series I subscribe to in my calendar and I see that I will be hearing Ms Thing Helseth in April.

Just back from the concert. It was good. Some music originally composed for trumpet and piano (Hindemith, Enescu, and a Norwegian named Edvard hagerup Bull) but not surprisingly mostly transcriptions, works either originally for piano solo (Bach as arranged by Busoni, a Norwegian named Geirr Tveitt) or voice and piano (Ravel, Sibelius, de Falla, and Kurt Weill). I thought the de Falla and the Weill worked best, maybe because I associate the sound of the trumpet with Spain and with the jazz that influenced Weill.

And This as an encore.

The Baltimore Sun's Criticdidn't enjoy the Weill as much as I did, but otherwise we agreed.

Baltimore? I thought you were a New Yorker.

A couple of days ago I came across a mention of Baltimore in a book I'm reading at the moment, and was surprised that it was immediately followed by the word Maryland. Surely it's in Pennsylvania, my mind said. I eventually realised that my mind had made Baltimore and Pittsburgh the same place.

I like brass chamber music. There used to be a truly excellent chamber brass group in Britain called the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, but Jones is with us no more.

I eventually realised that my mind had made Baltimore and Pittsburgh the same place.

Never say that to a football fan.

They were both steel towns when we made things in America. But Baltimore is also a seaport.

I grew up in New York and I'm there every month or two. But I've been here for twenty years.