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Re: Ah, the misogyny - shortest lasting paper ever?
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:14 am
by Little waster
Hornets, but not wasps, are a type of humming-bird.
Bees are wasps whose mams tell them to "keep their jumpers on because it could rain".
Re: Ah, the misogyny - shortest lasting paper ever?
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:42 am
by Grumble
warumich wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:02 am
Well I've successfully derailed this thread!
Baby coots and other birds belonging to the rail family are known as railings. There, I’ve re-railed it.
Re: Ah, the misogyny - shortest lasting paper ever?
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:53 am
by Gfamily
Grumble wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:42 am
warumich wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:02 am
Well I've successfully derailed this thread!
Baby coots and other birds belonging to the rail family are known as railings. There, I’ve re-railed it.
The OED doesn't say so, so I think you making that claim is beyond the pale.
Re: Ah, the misogyny - shortest lasting paper ever?
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 12:05 pm
by Grumble
Gfamily wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:53 am
Grumble wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:42 am
warumich wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:02 am
Well I've successfully derailed this thread!
Baby coots and other birds belonging to the rail family are known as railings. There, I’ve re-railed it.
The OED doesn't say so, so I think you making that claim is beyond the pale.
Ooh, pedantry is it? Well, I suppose at least you aren’t sitting on the fence.
Re: Ah, the misogyny - shortest lasting paper ever?
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 12:37 pm
by bmforre
Merriam-Webster, rail noun (2):
: any of numerous wading birds (family Rallidae, the rail family) that are of small or medium size and have short rounded wings, a short tail, and usually very long toes which enable them to run on the soft mud of marshes
In court, instead of being called to the bar may folk be called to the rail?
Or would that be raillery?
Re: Ah, the misogyny - shortest lasting paper ever?
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 12:56 pm
by Gfamily
bmforre wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 12:37 pm
Merriam-Webster, rail noun (2):
: any of numerous wading birds (family Rallidae, the rail family) that are of small or medium size and have short rounded wings, a short tail, and usually very long toes which enable them to run on the soft mud of marshes
In court, instead of being called to the bar may folk be called to the rail?
Or would that be raillery?
I've no problem with rails being birds, I'm railing about baby rails not being railings according to the OED.
Re: Ah, the misogyny - shortest lasting paper ever?
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 4:16 pm
by tom p
Grumble wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:42 am
warumich wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:02 am
Well I've successfully derailed this thread!
Baby coots and other birds belonging to the rail family are known as railings. There, I’ve re-railed it.
Badum tish. Except baby coots are known as cootlets.
At least they are when they are on my plate
Re: Ah, the misogyny - shortest lasting paper ever?
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:13 pm
by JQH
tom p wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 4:16 pm
Grumble wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:42 am
warumich wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:02 am
Well I've successfully derailed this thread!
Baby coots and other birds belonging to the rail family are known as railings. There, I’ve re-railed it.
Badum tish. Except baby coots are known as cootlets.
At least they are when they are on my plate
Only oop north.