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In reading Plutarch's Life of Agesilaus, I encountered a couple mildly interesting words: "Canathrum" and "tragelaphus" I lost the quote, will have to go looking.
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The Canathrum, as they call it, is a chair or chariot made of wood, in the shape of a griffin, or tragelaphus, on which the children and young virgins are carried in processions
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I finally bagged the tragelaphus! Bongo! that's another name for an African antelope.
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pl. 3gos 5AmSp < ?6 either of a pair of small joined drums, each of different pitch, struck with the fingers In full bongo drum
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In another site, "yale" was said to be a synonym for "tragelaphus".The "yale" was a mythical beast with horns that could swivel, and was used as a heraldric device used by some English dukes. I wonder if some of their retainers took this as their name, and that's how the iniversity in New Haven got its name. http://www.kwantlen.bc.ca/~donna/sca/yale/
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The "yale" was a mythical beast with horns that could swivel, and was used as a heraldric device used by some English dukes. I wonder if some of their retainers took this as their name, and that's how the iniversity in New Haven got its name.
The following surnames are of English origin and their usage spread throughout Great Britain: ...Yale (a dweller at a corner, nook, or secret place).
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Dear dxb: but the secret place was not secured by a Yale lock. (A very well known brand of padlocks in U.S)
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Not only in the US, and not only padlocks! Another of those global companies.
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