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Let me regress here a bit to the top of the thread:
"Palliasse - A thin mattress filled with straw or sawdust, f. F paillasse, f. It. pagliaccio, f. Rom. paleaceum, f .L palea, straw, chaff."
Thin mattress...straw...hmmmm. In the South, it was not uncommon for children to sleep on pallets. There must be a connection here to palliasse. Sometimes in families on tight budgets, only the parents could afford a bed, and the children would sleep on pallets. I saw a model of Jesse Owens' childhood cabin: eleven children in his family all slept in one small room on pallets though his parents had a bed in a separate room.
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Dear WW: I am regressing towards my second childhood.
I suggest that you are reverting to the first post.
And my dictionary doe indicate that "palliasse" and "pallet"
can indeed be regarded as arising from a French word for straw.
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Actually, wwh, I misused 'regress' on purpose: people in these threads occasionally will say that they are 'digressing'--and this particular thread was taking on several forms. The thread had digressed, so I wrote that I was 'regressing'--and meant the term in a tongue-in-cheek way. But you are absolutely correct, of course. I wasn't really regressing at all in the way the verb should had been used--and accurately used. I was just having a bit of fun with the sound of it. I don't suppose AWAD, of all places, is a place where I should intentionally misuse a word and not expect to be corrected. I won't pull that kind of action again and will simply and correctly revert when amused by threads' digressions.
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...is a place where I should intentionally misuse a word and not expect to be corrected.Until now I didn't think I was special...  where's tsuwm when you Needham - e----------- WW - I certainly hope they were the style of pallets that have virtually no space between the planks or there was a family chiropracter available.
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Dear WW: cross my heart, and hope to die, I wasn't correcting you. I haven't regressed that far.
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