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I was really surprised to start my week off at work with this word. Before google started dominating the "search engine world, i was a staunch follower of the website called www.askjeeves.com, which now is just www.ask.com.It also reminds me of the popular Bruce Wayne/Batman and his jeeves - Alfred Pennyworth. Cheers, neo
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If you have not yet read any of the P.G. Wodehouse novels about Jeeves, you should do so. Delightful stuff, marvelously written.
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Hear, hear.
And being a real fan of Bruce and Alfred, I cheer him too.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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The book on tape version of Wodehouse with Johnathan Cecil as reader is even better than reading it yourself. the variety of accents are marvellous.
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I am from the land of Jeeves but today I want to speak of 'ravel'. This is a word I had never heard until I came to the US 39 years ago. I grew up with 'unravel', which curiously, you show used in one of your example. So which is it?
I have always thought of 'ravel' as American English.
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>which is it?
that's the whole point of this week's theme - to ravel can mean ravel or unravel! : )
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----please, draw me a sheep----
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I know that sleep can knit the raveled sleeve of care but that is the only place I have seen it un-un'ned.
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un-un'ned.  or disunned 
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My first association at seeing today's word was with the composer Ravel. Then I read the whole story.
Middle Dutch word ravelen lives on as rafelen and it has the same somewhat ambiguous meaning.
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