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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread to the hounds! #69876 05/14/2002 1:57 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 200 AphonicRants enthusiast AphonicRants enthusiast Joined: Apr 2002 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: to the hounds! #69877 05/15/2002 10:16 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: to the hounds! #69878 05/15/2002 11:48 PM Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 279 Ireland GallantTed enthusiast GallantTed enthusiast Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 279 Ireland Of courths the anthser iths Nohound. Work that out fer yerthelveths. Yin and Yang, Venuths and Marths and all that kinda thing. GT Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: to the hounds! - thpot on! #69879 05/17/2002 6:43 AM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 45 perth, western australia zootsuit newbie zootsuit newbie Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 45 perth, western australia Yeth Gallant T - thertainly theems a thenthible anther to me. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: to the hounds! #69880 05/18/2002 1:51 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk dodyskin addict dodyskin addict Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk Hopefully you mean Welsh, as in, from Wales and not welch which round my way means to default on a promise. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: to the hounds! #69881 05/24/2002 4:34 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 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 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 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 View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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