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Cornsilk (was: Re: second dream team)
↰ answers Marc Aramini
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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.
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>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.