# Cornsilk (was: Re: second dream team) *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 19 Sep 2008* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Matthew Groves *19 Sep 2008, 16:08* JEEZ! How could I have missed this?! My mind is presently boggling. This also makes me think about the gender content of Vironese names. (I don't expect any of this is news to anyone...) "Silk, as the protein fiber produced by caterpillars is a masculine name; "silk" as cornflower stigmas is feminine (doubly so, being both botanical in nature and also the flower's female reproductive part). Which makes me think of the dual male/female nature of the Outsider. > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Marc Aramini wrote: > This is probably my article, which M. Wynn was kind enough to host all > these years. > > http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/chras-writers/marc-aramini1.htm > > also, cornsilk is a common phrase which makes the italian near cognate > interesting. ---