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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1957)
TWK.VZ MSDFOBD MAIL THIBUWK rrfcUy, Met !' 1937 1 Is That So? By IUGENI BURNS Ranger-Naturalist To be sure, all higher animals have elaborate means of com munication getting positive meanings across. Many with lan guage, of course, can express more than just feehngs but also thoughts. However, did you notice that In our language almost all words beginning with "m" have an un pleasant association. Such as: gnaggletnoth, snail, snappish, snarl, ner, snide, snisjzer, snitch. sn"op, snob, snort, snub, snuffle. There' reason just like a Hog- unpleasant snarl. As you say thpse words look in the mir ror. Now s."?y "sn" several times nvpr. Vmi ill find you cannot ;t wiib-iut raising your upper lir yo'jr nose wrinkles a nPFt!U !-:pressing. It is just possible that this may be the reas for these unpleasant words. An odd word group includes those word which mean 'xroup'' Goat, sheep or birds may go in frocks but certain cr.en have special "group" words. A ''saRgle'" of geese is a flock of wild geepe the water; but take these same birds in the air and they are a "skein" of geese. A group of birds or fowl hatched i- one time and cared for together is a "brood," explain Keiene sr.A Charlton Laird in ih5:r enter'aining The Tree of Language (World, N.Y.), but a brood of itttle chicks is a 'clutch" and so are the eggs be iarr they are hatched. Quail and partridges in a group are a "covey Another! word inv covey is 'bevy, but you can also have a bevy of pretty misses. Large animals, jjarik-u'.arly cattle, go in herds; herd of lions in South Africa if called a pride; -whales congregate In a pod or gam. ! In hunting, three doge are leash; and two pheasants a brace. Spooneriimi I And then there are the words which grow out of mix-ups, "call ed spoonerisms for the Rev. W. A Spooner of Oxford University. Once, intending to ask the dean's secretary, "Is the Dean busy?" he asked, "Is the bean dizzy?" A member of his congregation, catching the habit from him, supposedly complained to him about a person occupying her pew, saying: "Someone is occu pewing my pie," to which Rev. Spoonpr relpied: "I am very sorry. Madam. I'll sew you to an other sheet." But many other names, such as spoonerisms, grew out of names. Such as: Saxophone from its inventor,. A. J. Sax; begonia, boysenberry, bloomers, c a m e 1 lia, Diesel engine, Fahrenheit, Ferris wheel, macadam, garden ia, guillotine, mackintosh, mag nolia, macel, Melba toast, nico tine, pasteurize, quisling (from the last world war), sandwich, sequoia, silhouette, volt, watt and zepplin. All, people's names. Palindromes It would not be right to end without discussing pa.'indromes a sentence which reads exactly the same backvards as forward. Among the best known are the remark Napoleon was supposed to have made whr-n he was ban ished to the isiand of Elba: "Able was I ere 1 saw Elba." 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