[Xmca-l] Re: dappled

[Andy Blunden]

:) will do.
I should have checked the dictionary before advertising my ignorance.
Dappled dates from c. 1400, before the verb, and was first applied to 
animals.
Perish is old (13th century), but in connection with rubber (which is 
counted as a distinct meaning) from the 1860s.

Andy
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Tom Richardson wrote:
> How I wish Googlemail had a 'button' for 'Like' - for both of these posts -
> Andy for a strange confusion but deep question and Rod for the sheerwit and
> intelligence of a reply
> Hey Ho
> TomRichardson MiddlesbroughUK
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> On 25 November 2014 at 08:16, Rod Parker-Rees <R.Parker-Rees@plymouth.ac.uk>
> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>> Perished only applies to rubber! Perish the thought! People have perished,
>> ambitions have perished and here in Devon this morning it is perishing!
>>
>> Rod
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:
>> xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Andy Blunden
>> Sent: 25 November 2014 07:01
>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>> Subject: [Xmca-l] dappled
>>
>> 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)?
>>
>> Andy
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