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| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
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| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
750.0. "Clothes Places and ..." by SHALOT::ANDERSON (Give me a U, give me a T...) Wed Dec 13 1989 22:33
Since 749 was so popular, let's start a note on clothes places.
Remember, the word has to be hidden and the clothes have to be
fairly common. Off the top of my head, I can think of:
o Madras -- town in India
o Jeans -- ultimately from Genoa
o Jersey -- the island
o Jodphurs -- town in India ... hmm, not that common, I guess
o Damask -- from Damascus, though not really clothes
Ah, what the heck let's just open this thing up to anything --
food, clothes, colors, ocupations, animals, whatever. Also,
let's just make it proper nouns, not just places -- people,
places, what else? Remember the rules, though -- common terms,
hidden proper nouns (i.e., no adjectives).
-- Cliff
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| 750.1 | a few more | BOOKIE::DAVEY | | Wed Dec 13 1989 22:54 | 5 |
| Denim - a cloth - from N�mes, France
Guernsey - a sweater - from the Channel island
Tuxedo - from a town in New York state
John
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| 750.2 | Fez | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Wed Dec 13 1989 23:35 | 1 |
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| 750.3 | Ascot | CTOAVX::OAKES | Its Deja Vu all over again... | Thu Dec 14 1989 14:16 | 1 |
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| 750.4 | Bloomers | KAOO01::LAPLANTE | Les Montagnards Cameron d'Ottawa | Thu Dec 14 1989 14:18 | 1 |
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| 750.5 | Amelia Bloomer is not a place | SSGBPM::BPM5::KENAH | The stars of Sagittarius | Thu Dec 14 1989 23:05 | 3 |
| re -1: Nope, Bloomers belongs in the Clothes People note...
andrew
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| 750.6 | Arran sweaters | CURRNT::PREECE | Shipwrecked and comatose | Fri Dec 15 1989 06:57 | 5 |
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..... from the islands off the coast of Ireland.
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| 750.7 | tweed | GLIVET::RECKARD | Jon Reckard, 381-0878, ZKO3-2/T63 | Fri Dec 15 1989 13:26 | 0 |
| 750.8 | Arran/Aran | CHEFS::BEVERIDGEJ | John @RDL 7899-5065 | Fri Dec 15 1989 15:42 | 9 |
| < Note 750.6 by CURRNT::PREECE "Shipwrecked and comatose" >
-< Arran sweaters >-
..... from the islands off the coast of Ireland.
Arran's in the Firth of Clyde; the Aran Islands are the ones off
Galway with the sweaters.
Regards, John.
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| 750.9 | Some of each... | CURRNT::PREECE | Shipwrecked and comatose | Mon Dec 18 1989 10:36 | 8 |
| >Arran's in the Firth of Clyde; the Aran Islands are the ones off
>Galway with the sweaters.
.. Interestingly, I've seem it spelt both ways for both places !
Ian
(who come from the Scots Ar(r)an)
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| 750.10 | Does Ar(r)an have a Gaelic meaning? | CHEFS::BEVERIDGEJ | John @RDL 7899-5065 | Mon Dec 18 1989 15:04 | 12 |
| < Re .9 >
>Arran's in the Firth of Clyde; the Aran Islands are the ones off
>Galway with the sweaters.
>... Interestingly, I've seem it spelt both ways for both places !
True enough. I dont know if it has a meaning in Gaelic, which being
really only as spoken language doesnt necessarily have authoritative
spelling forms.
John.
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