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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread owls and nightingales #7986 10/18/00 11:54 AM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England F FishonaBike veteran FishonaBike veteran F Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England 1. Etymologically speaking, nightingale = night + yeller 2. yell = ululate (near enough) 3. "nightingale" is apparently not a species (surprised me, too) - just a motley bunch of birds that yell at night. 4. It follows that an owl [b}is a nightingale! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Uulate? awaddle 10/15/00 02:48 PM Re: Uulate? AnnaStrophic 10/15/00 04:17 PM Re: Uulate? awaddle 10/15/00 04:54 PM Re: Uulate? belMarduk 10/15/00 11:44 PM Re: Uulate? wsieber 10/16/00 05:42 AM Re: Uulate? AnnaStrophic 10/16/00 09:34 AM Re: Uulate? paulb 10/16/00 10:59 AM Re: Uulate? AnnaStrophic 10/16/00 12:03 PM Re: Uulate? RhubarbCommando 10/18/00 01:23 PM "one man's owl is the other's nightingale" TEd Remington 10/16/00 03:04 PM Re: "one man's owl is the other's nightingale" belMarduk 10/16/00 08:58 PM owls and nightingales FishonaBike 10/18/00 11:54 AM Re: owls and nightingales Max Quordlepleen 10/18/00 06:22 PM Re: owls and nightingales FishonaBike 10/19/00 11:54 AM Re: owls and nightingales maverick 10/19/00 03:09 PM Re: owls and nightingales awaddle 10/18/00 08:42 PM Re: owls and nightingales FishonaBike 10/19/00 11:45 AM Re: Uulate? FishonaBike 10/17/00 10:04 AM Re: Uulate? belMarduk 10/18/00 01:58 AM Re: Uulate? FishonaBike 10/18/00 11:16 AM Re: Uulate? awaddle 10/18/00 08:38 PM Re: Uulate? enrique 10/19/00 08:40 PM Re: Uulate? Jackie 10/19/00 08:45 PM Re: Uulate? FishonaBike 10/19/00 11:18 PM Re: Uulate? awaddle 10/20/00 03:11 AM Re: Uulate? FishonaBike 10/20/00 04:00 PM 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 Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts229,935 Members9,198 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members testawad, Bill_L, achz, MAGNVSTALSMA, Burlyfish 9,198 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 831 guests, and 2 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 31 A C Bowden 13 LukeJavan8 2 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,923 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,949 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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