[Xmca-l] Re: dappled

[Rod Parker-Rees]

I think perish has a particular sense - life draining away - which makes it appropriate for the progressive loss of functionality suffered by exposed rubber! Word meanings are dappled. Do you know Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem 'Pied Beauty' (http://www.bartleby.com/122/13.html) which begins 'Glory be to God for dappled things' and goes on to celebrate 'All things counter, original , spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)'

Rod

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Sent: 25 November 2014 09:12
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Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: dappled

Yes, Rod, it may just be a case of my ignorance. I had not noticed "dappled" used those other ways. "Perished" though as it is used for perishable rubber is surely a distinct meaning from perished=died? But maybe it is all just cases of words moving from one context to another.
Andy
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Rod Parker-Rees wrote:
> This is news to me. I would have thought that 'dappled' had many uses - 'a dappled horse', 'the cloth was green, dappled with patches of blue'. You could argue that these uses are metaphorical - borrowed from dappled light or dappled shade but you could also argue that the use in 'dappled shade' is a borrowing from the description of a dappled horse.
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> Perished only applies to rubber! Perish the thought! People have perished, ambitions have perished and here in Devon this morning it is perishing!
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> Rod
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> I have a trivial question for the linguists on this list.
> Do you have a word for words like "dappled" and "perished" (or dapple and perish) which can describe only one thing (shade and rubber respectively)?
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> Andy
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