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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread For dxb #104555 05/31/2003 1:11 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 In reading a short story by Kipling, "Actions and Reactions" I encountered the word "kelk". Diligent search was unavailing. Sounds like briar or bramble, something that can snag clothing. " They walked toward it through an all abandoned land. Here they found the ghost of a patch of lucerne that had refused to die: there a harsh fallow surrendered to yard-high thistles; and here a breadth of rampant kelk feigning to be lawful crop. In the ungrazed pastures swaths of dead stuff caught their feet, and the ground beneath glistened with sweat. At the bottom of the valley a little brook had undermined its footbridge, and frothed in the wreckage. But there stood great woods on the slopes beyond--old, tall, and brilliant, like unfaded tapestries against the walls of a ruined house." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: For dxb #104556 05/31/2003 1:57 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Books/FolkTalk/JKL.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: For dxb #104557 05/31/2003 8:17 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok I do think that "common foetid parsley" has more of a ring to it, however ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: For dxb #104558 06/04/2003 4:25 PM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK I guess this must what I would call Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris). Googling for Foetid Parsley, with various spellings, only brought up that one website, so I'm not convinced that the REV. M. C. F. MORRIS, B.C.L., M.A., Vicar of Newton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire, 1892, had the name quite right. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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