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Re: Patriarchy, evolution, etc.
Doug Weller (dweller@RAMTOPS.DEMON.CO.UK)
Sun, 17 Mar 1996 08:24:03 +0000
In message <Pine.HPP.3.91.960316201241.12005A-100000@falstaff.ucs.indiana.edu>
thomas w kavanagh <tkavanag@indiana.edu> wrote:
> prithee, whose "misunderstanding."
>
> On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, Doug Weller wrote:
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> > In message <Pine.HPP.3.91.960316163016.21498B-100000@falstaff.ucs.indiana.edu> thomas w kavanagh recently said:
> >
> > > Webster's:
> > >
> > > ilk
> > > Scottish
> > > (obsolete): same, like;
> > > from a misunderstanding of the phrase "of that ilk", in Scotland, meaning
> > > (1) of the same name, as "Macdonald of that ilk," meaning Macdonald of
> > > Macdonald, hence (2) of the same class or kind.
>
> Perhaps, my extract from Webster's should have had a period, rather than
> a comma, after "of that ilk", emphasizing that in Scotland the
> meaning IS Macdonald of Macdonald, and that the misunderstanding "of the
> same kind" occurs elsewhere.
But it doesn't mean '(1) of the same name' -- *that's* the misunderstanding.
It means 'of the estate bearing that name'.
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