Hi again,

Thanks for the discussion so far..I did find the origin of the rhyme at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Literary_Nightmare or at least another link in the chain of where it came from, but we are still looking for where the "word" "erstomaire" came from, unless it was created to rhyme appropriately and is based on "erst" somehow?

As far as why the insulator hobby cares about this, one of the major manufacturers of insulators was the Hemingray Glass Company, so the hostess of this event is to blame or thank for this discussion!

Jill