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#69876 - 05/14/02 09:57 AM to the hounds!
AphonicRants enthusiast Registered: 04/09/02 Posts: 200	From the same on-line dictionary source from which Helen took her recent definition of "barmecide" -- and a fun one it is;¹ thank you, helen -- come the following challenge: Yethhounds n.: A pack of phantom hounds pursuing a lady. From old English folklore. Yeth comes from heath. Also called wishhounds. Wisely is it said that the English have a word for everything. How this particular one first came into existence is a mystery to the author, even allowing for the penchat of the English for specialist hunting dogs. There appears to be no equivalent term for a pack of phantom hounds pursuing a gentleman. Can our fine minds find the missing term? ------------------------------------------------------ ¹ Note: that particular dictionary-source is great fun, but should be taken with a grain of salt, for it is not scrupulously accurate. See e.g. the recent post on xanthodontous; so too, that source's definition for barmecide is well beyond that of the more-recognized dictionaries. Edit: "yethhounds" ... I'd bet there are very few words with a double-h.
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#69877 - 05/15/02 06:16 PM Re: to the hounds!
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Dear AR: The best I could do was find a site about a Welch myth:"The Hounds of Hell". Don't chase men. http://www.geocities.com/jenks436/cwnannwn.html
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#69878 - 05/15/02 07:48 PM Re: to the hounds!
GallantTed enthusiast Registered: 11/07/01 Posts: 273 Loc: Ireland	Of courths the anthser iths Nohound. Work that out fer yerthelveths. Yin and Yang, Venuths and Marths and all that kinda thing. GT
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#69879 - 05/17/02 02:43 AM Re: to the hounds! - thpot on!
zootsuit newbie Registered: 03/27/02 Posts: 45 Loc: perth, western australia	Yeth Gallant T - thertainly theems a thenthible anther to me.
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#69880 - 05/18/02 09:51 AM Re: to the hounds!
dodyskin addict Registered: 04/24/02 Posts: 475 Loc: manchester uk	Hopefully you mean Welsh, as in, from Wales and not welch which round my way means to default on a promise.
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#69881 - 05/24/02 12:34 AM Re: to the hounds!
Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta	From Jane Austen's Emma: enjoying the youthful simplicity which could speak with so much exultation of Mrs. Martin's having "two parlours, two very good parlours, indeed; one of them quite as large as Mrs. Goddard's drawing-room; and of her having an upper maid who had lived five-and-twenty years with her; and of their having eight cows, two of them Alderneys, and one a little Welch cow, a very pretty little Welch cow indeed; So, at least in Jane's day, Welch was a legitimate spelling for the word meaning from Wales. Bingley _________________________ Bingley
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