[lit-ideas] Re: Eliot (and Oregon as Suburb)
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 13:15:12 +0100
Sunday, June 5, 2005, 2:49:51 AM, David Ritchie wrote:
DR> I fear Robert has been getting at Mutton College's Faculty Claret ("Ol'
DR> Sheep Dip" to the cognoscenti).
DR> I quote from my trusty thirteenth Britannica:
DR> The common hazel, Corylus Avellana, occurs throughout Europe, in North
DR> Africa and in central and Russian Asia...[snip]...
DR> The filbert, among the numerous varieties of Corylus Avellana, is
DR> extensively cultivated, especially in Kent, for the sake of its nuts, which
DR> are readily distinguished from cob-nuts by their ample involucre and greater
DR> length.
That's right -- my mother called the longer ones filberts, and the
ones she called filberts had an ample involucre.
(I posted the Oregon page because it has pretty pictures.)
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