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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread On their way to the OED?? #98574 03/13/03 05:06 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie OP Carpal Tunnel OP Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Has anyone here heard of Patrick O'Brian? tsuwm, I'd be particularly interested in your comments on his "list". Have you been to that Duluth site? AnnaS. and Faldage, what do you think of some of Mr. O'B.'s etymologies? Bingley? http://www.io.com/gibbonsb/words.words.words.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: On their way to the OED?? #98575 03/13/03 05:18 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Patrick O'Brian. Aubrey-Maturin stories. Life aboard an English fighting ship during the Napoleonic Wars. Excellent stories. Never heard of his repute as an etymologist. And your link worked fine for me, BTW. hth. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: On their way to the OED?? #98576 03/13/03 05:51 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Gibbons Burke and the contributors to his list play pretty fast and loose with folk etymology on some of those phrases--some of which we've discussed here; e.g., three sheets to the wind, the whole nine yards, POSH(?). it will be interesting to see how much of the Duluth site material ends up in OED3. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: On their way to the OED?? #98577 03/13/03 11:15 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie OP Carpal Tunnel OP Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Yes, I was thinking of posh in particular, since to my recollection it was debunked here. I shall trust that you'll keep an eye out, my friend. Yes, Faldage, you DID help! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: On their way to the OED?? #98578 03/14/03 11:20 AM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK D dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah D Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK Has anyone here heard of Patrick O'Brian? I used to believe that no one would write better novels dealing with the Royal Navy of that period than CS Forrester. Now I think no one will ever do better than Patrick O'Brian. A strange man, however, and a shame that he is dead. O'Brian was very knowledgable on naval and medical history and terminology but, except in those fields, he was not an etymologist. 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 Website 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 View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,372 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 767 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 28 A C Bowden 25 LukeJavan8 3 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,561 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,919 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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