On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Philip Hart wrote: > > >On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Mark A Mandel wrote: > >> > >> What's the use of wearing braces*, > >> Hats and spats and shoes with laces, > ... > > > >*Woad Ode > > > >NATIONAL ANTHEM OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS > >(to the tune of "Men of Harlech") > > > >by Colin Douthwaite > > > > *Also, "braces" (British) == "suspenders" (American) > We won't get into the matter of pants. My bad - surely that's what he meant to gloss. Though I understood what "braces" meant in this context, but I wouldn't want to have to define "spats" before a national audience. On the subject of words, "catamite" (see _Orca_) comes from "Ganymede", Zeus's "cupbearer". I wonder what the Dragaeran equivalent is. And "torrent" (a violent flow of water) comes from "torrens" - boiling, burning - from "torrere" to parch.