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#14533 01/04/01 02:42 AM
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Very informative, Nemo. Where (not in Middle-Earth) is the place you call Tol Eressea?


You're absolutely right, Capital Kiwi, Eressëa is not in Middle Earth, and hasn't been since the Valar sought Illuvatar's aid in defeating Melkor. As to your other question, do you really think that a lady who lists her email address as nemo@nirgenmdswo.nunca is likely to answer that? Perhaps I am the reincarnation of Greta Garbo, or perhaps, like her, I just vant to be ...


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Hmmm. From your email address, it's Never Land. I'm assuming that Tol Eressea = Never Land and you're therefore Peter Pan in drag. Speaking, um, Swedish?

They say that Garbo tried out for the part of Galadriel in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, but they turned her down because she was dead and wanted a closed coffin as well as a closed set ...

I hope the witness protection programme works for you!




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Good list. Some more for you (including some obvious ones?)

Gown
Jockeys
Shorts
Sou'wester
Spats
Sweater

And just so we get the originals right:

mac = Mackintosh

wellies = Wellingtons = gumboots

As some of the others have said, some of the words are completely new to me - and I've love to discover the definitions or usages.

And yes, in Bombay it was common (in boy circles) to refer to bras as 'over the shoulder boulder holders', though we wouldn't mention it to girls (get our faces slapped and out mothers called, that would).

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cuirass, greave, codpiece, wimple, liripipe, bascinet, camail, tabard, ruff...

toga, himation, peplon, fillet, garland...

loincloth, penis sheath...

tarboosh, fez, stetson, akubra, propeller beanie...

wig, lion costume, diving bell...


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Shanks! shame on you! Your jockey shorts are obvious! This side of the pond civilized people tend to wear pants or trousers, or chinos, or cords, or something over them!

And which ones don't you know? since i am not sure if all the definiation would be the same..

ie, i always thought a mukluk was outer where-- variation an a parka, ski jacket, anorak-- but my M-W 10th says it s a boot or shoe ! (NYTimes Crossword last week had clue of "Kind of Parka-- and mukluk was the answer-- so i am not alone in thinking it a jacket type garment...)


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Ahhh... mukluks!
I remember receiving a pair for Christmas in the mid sixties. They were heavy woolen slippers with leather soles. A sort of sock/slipper hybrid. I always assumed the origin was from the Inuit, or as we called them back in the day, good ol' Eskimoes!


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Well, a quick look through the only Inuktitut dictionary I can find on the Web fails to reveal mukluk. On the other hand, it fails to mention anorak, parka, kayak, and igloo too. I do learn that a man's sealskin parka is nattiq and a man's caribou parka is qulittaq. FWIW.


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Well M-W10th says seal skin outer boots, worn over several pairs of socks--

but yes, when i was a kid, they did have these socks, with a leather sole.. (fake leather, and you could wash the whole deal) called mukluks....

what do you think of for the single word
flannels-- ?


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what do you think of for the single word
flannels-- ?
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Definitely a form of trouser - usually in charcoal grey.

As for your 'jumper', I think that's probably what we wore to school as 'pinafores', and would be positively indecent without something underneath!

Another good word is 'frock' - quite commonly used amongst some of my friends, but I tried writing it in an assignment recently and my lecturer scrawled 'outdated' alongside it. Personally though, I rather like it.


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rkay said: As for your 'jumper', I think that's probably what we wore to school as 'pinafores', and would be positively indecent without something underneath!

Interesting. As a fellow Londoner (and erstwhile marketing bod too), a 'jumper' has always seemed to me to be similar to a pullover. I did notice it being used for what I might call 'dungarees' in the US, but hadn't realised that this was somewhat similar to the UK meaning as well.

the sunshine (way behind the times?) warrior


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